City report · Madhya Pradesh, India
Murwāra Air quality today
Air quality in Murwāra currently reads AQI 99 (Moderate): Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
Air quality right now
AQI 99
Moderate
- PM2.5, fine particles (µg/m³)
- 36.8
- tree cover
- 30.4%
- trees in this area
- 95.3K
- more trees needed
- 0
Measured across a 2 km radius around Gandhi Ganj, Katni, Madhya Pradesh 483501, India (12.57 km²), from a satellite image of Oct 19, 2026. Lower AQI is better: 0–50 is Good, above 300 is Hazardous.
Murwāra · AQI 99 (Moderate)
Murwāra's tree count comes to 95,313 trees across 12.54 km² of land, already at or above the 30% tree-cover level considered healthy for this area.
Air quality detail
Air quality in Murwāra today: AQI 99, Moderate
Main pollutant: PM2.5 · Observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 105 km, US EPA index. Values in µg/m³.
Estimate · model corrected with 3 station cities within 105 km, e.g. Jabalpur and Satna
Health signal
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting long outdoor exertion.
PM2.5
36.8
PM10
73.3
NO₂
18.5
O₃
77.0
SO₂
9.7
CO
455.0
- 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 Murwāra's daily AQI at 140 on average, from 126 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 163 on Nov 10.
This is the US EPA AQI. How it differs from India's AQI (CPCB) · The full guide
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Tree cover detail
Tree cover in Murwāra: Healthy tree cover
30.4% tree cover against a 30% healthy-neighborhood target, across 12.54 km² of land.
Trees in this area
95,313
Target trees
95,313
More trees needed
0
CO₂ if planted / yr
0 kg
Deforestation · 2001–2025
How much forest has Murwāra lost?
There was almost no forest around Murwāra 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 April 2017 of a 5 × 5 km area in the city center.
Forest gained and lost, 2000–2020
- Forest in 2000
- 1,500 ha
- Forest in 2020
- 1,630 ha
- Overall change
- +131 hamore forest than in 2000
Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Murwāra grew from about 1,500 hectares to 1,630 hectares, a net gain of about 131 hectares (+8.8%). New forest grew on about 155 hectares, while 23 hectares were lost.
These 2000 and 2020 maps, from the University of Maryland, count any land with trees taller than 5 m as forest, including plantations and orchards. Forest that was cut or burned and had grown back by 2020 counts in both years, so the loss here is smaller than the yearly figures.
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. Forest gained and lost 2000–2020: Potapov et al. 2022, UMD GLAD Global Land Cover and Land Use Change, CC BY 4.0. Images: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. How it's measured
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What is the air quality (AQI) in Murwāra right now?
The latest reading for Murwāra shows an AQI of 99 (Moderate), observed Nov 10, 20:30 local time via Open-Meteo / CAMS, corrected with 3 ground-station cities within 105 km, 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 Murwāra today?
At AQI 99 (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 Murwāra been like this week?
Over the last 7 days, the CAMS air-quality model put Murwāra's daily AQI at 140 on average, from 126 on Nov 6 to an hourly peak of 163 on Nov 10. On 7 of those days the average was above 100, unhealthy for sensitive groups.
Is Murwāra's AQI the same as India's AQI (CPCB)?
No. Airleaf shows the US EPA Air Quality Index (AQI), the scale used by IQAir and most air-quality apps. India's Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) publishes the National Air Quality Index on its own scale: 0–50 good, 51–100 satisfactory, 101–200 moderate, 201–300 poor, 301–400 very poor and 401–500 severe. The two scales don't line up. At moderate fine-particle levels the US scale reads higher: 55 µg/m³ of PM2.5 is 149 on the US AQI but about 92, "satisfactory", on India's. In heavy smog India's reads higher: 100 µg/m³ is 182 on the US AQI and about 232, "poor", on India's. CPCB also averages particles over 24 hours, so its figure moves more slowly than an hourly reading.
How much forest has the area around Murwāra lost since 2001?
There was almost no forest around Murwāra 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. Comparing satellite maps from 2000 and 2020, the forest around Murwāra grew from about 1,500 hectares to 1,630 hectares, a net gain of about 131 hectares (+8.8%). New forest grew on about 155 hectares, while 23 hectares were lost.
What is the tree count in Murwāra?
Murwāra has an estimated 95,313 trees across the 12.54 km² of land measured — 30.4% tree cover, already past the 30% tree-cover target set for this area.
How many more trees does Murwāra need?
Murwāra has already reached its tree-cover target, so no additional trees are needed to close the gap.
How are Murwāra'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 Gandhi Ganj; the tree count is an estimate derived from that cover.
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