City report · Maysan, Iraq
Mostafa Air quality today
Air quality in Mostafa currently reads AQI 87 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 87
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 25.4
- tree cover
- 0.4%
- trees in this area
- 1.3K
- more trees needed
- 93.0K
Measured across a 2 km radius around Al Maymunah, Maysan, Iraq (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Sep 26, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Mostafa · AQI 87 (Moderate)
Mostafa's tree count comes to 1,257 trees across 12.57 km², 30 points below the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area, so roughly 92,991 more trees would close the gap.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Mostafa today: AQI 87, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Model estimate · no ground station nearby
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
25.4
PM10
114.1
NO₂
4.7
O₃
101.0
SO₂
16.0
CO
204.0
- Outdoor exercise
- Fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier
- Windows
- Fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution
- Mask
- Not needed for most people
- Air purifier
- Worth running if you are sensitive
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mostafa's daily AQI at 115 on average, from 86 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 196 on Nov 7.
Where Mostafa stands: the most polluted cities in the world right now · the cleanest
Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Mostafa: Critically low
0.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.57 km².
Trees in this area
1,257
Target trees
94,248
More trees needed
92,991
CO₂ if planted / yr
2,046 t
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Mostafa lost?
There was almost no forest around Mostafa in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
2017: satellite photo from August 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
These figures cover everything within 10 km of the city center, a wider area than the report above, because forest is usually lost at a city's edges.
Source: Hansen/UMD/Google/USGS/NASA, Global Forest Change (GFC-2025-v1.13); causes: WRI/Google DeepMind drivers of forest loss; both CC BY 4.0, summed by Airleaf for each area. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Mostafa right now?
The latest reading for Mostafa shows an AQI of 87 (Moderate), observed Nov 11, 12:00 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, US EPA index. The main pollutant is PM2.5. Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Is it safe to exercise outside in Mostafa today?
At AQI 87 (Moderate): fine for most people; unusually sensitive people should take long or hard exercise easier. Windows: fine to open; close them if you are sensitive to pollution. Masks: not needed for most people. The reading changes through the day, so check again before a long run or ride.
What has the air quality in Mostafa been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Mostafa's daily AQI at 115 on average, from 86 on Nov 11 to an hourly peak of 196 on Nov 7. On 4 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
How much forest has the area around Mostafa lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Mostafa in 2000, so there has been almost nothing to lose since. Only fairly dense woodland counts as forest in these maps, so scattered street and garden trees don't show up here.
What is the tree count in Mostafa?
Mostafa has an estimated 1,257 trees across the 12.57 km² measured — 0.4% tree cover, 30 percentage points short of the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Mostafa need?
Mostafa needs roughly 92,991 more trees to close a 30-point shortfall against its 30% tree-cover target — about 2,046 t of extra CO₂ absorbed per year once grown.
How are Mostafa's air quality and tree cover measured?
Air quality comes from ground monitoring stations via OpenAQ where one reports nearby, and otherwise, as here, from the Open-Meteo / CAMS model, which may differ from street-level monitors. Tree cover is measured from Sentinel-2 L2A (ESA Copernicus) via Earth Search satellite imagery at 10 m detail across a 2 km radius around Al Maymunah; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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