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Wildfires in Qinghai
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 05:23 UTC
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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 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 3,690 km² of Qinghai at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 441 km², ranking 28th of 31 regions of China.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2015, with 598 km² detected; the quietest was 2022, with 256 km². The 2021–2025 average is 18% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 39% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 24 December 2025, with detections in 48 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 3,690 km² with at least one detection, 13% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 2,620 | 71% |
| 2 years | 592 | 16% |
| 3 to 5 years | 358 | 10% |
| 6 to 10 years | 72 | 1.9% |
| 11 years or more | 48 | 1.3% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 36.75, 101.75 and holds 31% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 393 | 1,531 |
| 2013 | 505 | 2,036 |
| 2014 | 526 | 2,135 |
| 2015 | 598 | 2,314 |
| 2016 | 399 | 2,042 |
| 2017 | 369 | 1,408 |
| 2018 | 375 | 1,215 |
| 2019 | 534 | 1,597 |
| 2020 | 503 | 1,530 |
| 2021 | 442 | 1,307 |
| 2022 | 256 | 853 |
| 2023 | 417 | 1,156 |
| 2024 | 382 | 949 |
| 2025 | 479 | 1,054 |
Other regions of China
- Heilongjiang37,120 km² in an average year
- Jilin16,470 km² in an average year
- Yunnan15,170 km² in an average year
- Inner Mongolia11,850 km² in an average year
- Guangxi9,620 km² in an average year
- Liaoning8,350 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 regions
- Gansu452 km
- Ningxia453 km
- Inner Mongolia518 km
- Ömnögovi, Mongolia668 km
- Shaanxi794 km
- Shanxi858 km