REGIONAL HAZE

Kuala Lumpur Haze: AQI Hits 171 Amid Indonesian Forest Fires

Smoke from Indonesian forest fires blanketed Kuala Lumpur on October 22, with IQAir recording an unhealthy Air Quality Index of 171 at 0300 GMT.

BharatVox · 22 October 2026 at 01:12 pm IST

Kuala Lumpur skyline, Malaysia — context photograph; not the reported event — CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0

Kuala Lumpur was covered in haze on October 22 as smoke from forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia drifted across Malaysia, India Global Review reported. Swiss air-quality monitor IQAir recorded an Air Quality Index of 171, in the unhealthy category, at 0300 GMT.

Satellite data from Nusantara Atlas cited in the report put Indonesia’s cumulative burned area at 1.92 million hectares by the end of September, up from 895,650 hectares in August.

The report said haze had also travelled towards Singapore and East Timor, raising concerns about air quality and public health beyond Malaysia.

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