Wildfires in China
Situation over the last 30 days
5003 fires detected in China over the last 30 days, totalling 919,196 hectares of cumulative footprint. The latest satellite detection (NASA FIRMS) dates from October 21 at 03:31 PM.
Fires in China follow the farming calendar and the spring drought: stubble burning after harvests, steppe and forest fires from March to June, then a second wave in autumn. Agricultural detections are numerous and often short-lived.
- Shanxi (CN)from September 22 at 08:22 AM to October 21 at 07:57 AM18,148 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 14 at 03:11 AM to October 16 at 07:53 AM15,445 ha
- Mongolie-Intérieure (CN)from September 30 at 07:53 AM to October 21 at 08:44 AM12,611 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 1 at 05:53 AM to October 16 at 07:53 AM12,275 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 12 at 08:35 AM to October 17 at 06:38 AM11,582 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 11 at 05:49 AM to October 17 at 06:38 AM10,954 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 11 at 05:49 AM to October 17 at 07:16 AM8,485 ha
- Mongolie-Intérieure (CN)from October 5 at 03:56 AM to October 16 at 08:35 AM6,339 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from October 3 at 06:55 AM to October 15 at 08:30 PM5,032 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 14 at 05:13 AM to October 16 at 07:53 AM4,781 ha
- Hubei (CN)from October 5 at 07:36 AM to October 12 at 08:46 AM4,550 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 16 at 06:14 AM to October 17 at 06:38 AM4,219 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 15 at 04:53 AM to October 16 at 07:53 AM3,723 ha
- Hebei (CN)from October 1 at 09:46 AM to October 11 at 07:46 AM3,699 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from September 25 at 09:16 AM to October 21 at 07:38 AM3,203 ha
- Gansu (CN)from September 22 at 07:46 AM to October 14 at 08:29 AM3,134 ha
- Níngxià (CN)from September 28 at 08:10 AM to October 14 at 08:10 AM3,087 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from September 29 at 07:14 AM to October 15 at 08:10 AM3,033 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 12 at 04:51 AM to October 17 at 07:16 AM3,017 ha
- Henan (CN)from September 29 at 06:29 AM to October 15 at 07:14 AM2,998 ha
- Hubei (CN)from October 10 at 07:42 AM to October 14 at 07:31 AM2,930 ha
- Anhui (CN)from October 4 at 07:55 AM to October 15 at 07:34 PM2,900 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from September 22 at 07:22 PM to October 15 at 08:32 PM2,798 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from October 5 at 07:38 AM to October 10 at 07:44 AM2,731 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 16 at 04:34 AM to October 17 at 06:38 AM2,730 ha
- Mongolie-Intérieure (CN)from September 30 at 07:31 AM to October 15 at 08:12 AM2,616 ha
- Tibet (CN)from October 17 at 09:12 AM to October 21 at 03:31 PM2,572 ha
- Mongolie-Intérieure (CN)from October 14 at 06:32 AM to October 16 at 09:29 AM2,564 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from September 22 at 08:06 PM to October 15 at 08:32 PM2,534 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 11 at 07:57 AM to October 17 at 07:16 AM2,518 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from September 29 at 07:34 PM to October 10 at 07:44 AM2,508 ha
- Anhui (CN)from October 7 at 07:21 AM to October 15 at 08:10 AM2,494 ha
- Shanxi (CN)from September 29 at 07:50 AM to October 10 at 08:03 AM2,474 ha
- Shaanxi (CN)from October 4 at 07:55 AM to October 10 at 07:08 AM2,396 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 16 at 05:15 AM to October 17 at 07:33 AM2,324 ha
- Xinjiang (CN)from October 8 at 08:25 AM to October 20 at 12:02 PM2,260 ha
- Níngxià (CN)from September 22 at 08:22 AM to October 13 at 04:13 AM2,212 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 15 at 06:12 AM to October 17 at 01:00 PM2,202 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 11 at 05:49 AM to October 16 at 07:33 AM2,185 ha
- Heilongjiang (CN)from October 15 at 04:53 AM to October 15 at 08:52 AM2,172 ha
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These figures come from satellite thermal detection and are not an official tally: only the emergency services of the country concerned are authoritative. The detected footprint overstates the area actually burnt, a pixel counting whole (375 m for VIIRS, 1 km for MODIS) when only an edge burns. A freshly detected fire may not yet carry a place name and will then not appear in this list, though it is already on the map.
Learn more: what a forest fire is and how satellites detect it
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