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Wildfires in China

Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC

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Regions

• Anhui166 fires
• Beijing1 fire
• Chongqing6 fires
• Fujian32 fires
• Gansu54 fires
• Guangdong50 fires
• Guangxi86 fires
• Guizhou63 fires
• Hainan5 fires
• Hebei153 fires
• Heilongjiang28 fires
• Henan66 fires
• Hubei192 fires
• Hunan90 fires
• Inner Mongolia127 fires
• Jiangsu55 fires
• Jiangxi99 fires
• Jilin28 fires
• Liaoning50 fires
• Ningxia41 fires
• Qinghai5 fires
• Shaanxi32 fires
• Shandong142 fires
• Shanghaino fires now
• Shanxi166 fires
• Sichuan5 fires
• Tianjin16 fires
• Tibet5 fires
• Xinjiang88 fires
• Yunnan51 fires
• Zhejiang16 fires

The 300 most powerful are listed below.

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Fire history, 2012–2025

Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-21

Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 1,312,860 km² of China at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 182,410 km², ranking 15th of 200 countries.

Year by year

The busiest year was 2014, with 286,920 km² detected; the quietest was 2018, with 133,260 km². The 2021–2025 average is 30% lower than the 2012–2016 average.

Through the year

March, April and May together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 25 October 2015, with detections in 9,901 cells.

Ground that burns again

Of the 1,312,860 km² with at least one detection, 22% had detections in three or more different years.

Years with a detection	km²	Share
1 year	742,980	57%
2 years	280,510	21%
3 to 5 years	238,260	18%
6 to 10 years	45,290	3.4%
11 years or more	5,830	0.4%

The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 39.75, 118.25 and holds 1.6% of the country's fire-days.

The figures

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Year	Detected km²	Fire-days
2012	177,980	373,049
2013	240,370	482,919
2014	286,920	542,999
2015	229,410	453,934
2016	179,380	382,017
2017	209,660	443,283
2018	133,260	326,358
2019	170,550	375,524
2020	147,820	340,238
2021	136,790	311,673
2022	143,740	304,628
2023	153,800	320,031
2024	159,340	312,023
2025	184,710	352,027

Nearby countries

• India324,930 km² in an average year
• Myanmar189,670 km² in an average year
• Indonesia104,670 km² in an average year
• Thailand104,620 km² in an average year
• Lao PDR73,670 km² in an average year
• Cambodia67,840 km² in an average year
• How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.

Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.

Nearby countries

• Dem. Rep. Korea688 km
• Republic of Korea813 km

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What sits behind each of these fires

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