Anda City fire, 21 March 2026 安达市 · Anda City, Lanxi County
The fire started on 21 March 2026 in Anda City, China, and satellites saw it burning for 15 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,427 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 311th largest in Heilongjiang Province since 2016 (of 1920 with a page). Number 217 in China in 2026, of 1103.
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- Burnt area
- 3,427ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 15days
- 21 Mar 2026 – 4 Apr 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- counties
- Started on
- 21 Mar
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 72
- in a single hotspot: 68 MW
- Danger at start
- 6
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 72MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.8 mm on 5 Apr.
This area had burned before
47% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 604 ha in 2016, 38 ha in 2018, 130 ha in 2021, 916 ha in 2022, 711 ha in 2024, 179 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,594 ha that had burned before.
- 589 ha Anda City fire, April 2024 3,049 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 421 ha Anda City fire, November 2022 6,400 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 99 ha Anda City fire, November 2025 2,953 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 81 ha Anda City fire, April 2024 4,438 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Beijing (Dongcheng and Xicheng) boundary: geoBoundaries · Lee Beryman, OpenStreetMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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3,402 ha reached on 22 Mar0.9 %
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Lanxi County 兰西县30 ha0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there were about 39 hectares of built-up land and about 1,300 residents (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Mar | 10.0 °C | 25 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 23 Mar | 10.5 °C | 25 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
| 24 Mar | 15.5 °C | 21 % | 53 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 25 Mar | 14.1 °C | 31 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 26 Mar | 11.9 °C | 27 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 27 Mar | 10.0 °C | 32 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 28 Mar | 12.2 °C | 22 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 29 Mar | 9.5 °C | 40 % | 58 km/h | 0.3 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 30 Mar | 9.8 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 31 Mar | 13.5 °C | 23 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 1 Apr | 6.1 °C | 18 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 2 Apr | 8.8 °C | 20 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 3 Apr | 4.4 °C | 33 % | 35 km/h | 0.7 mm | Low 6 |
| 4 Apr | 7.7 °C | 28 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 5 Apr after | 1.6 °C | 67 % | 51 km/h | 6.8 mm | Very low 0 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 21 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 132 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 100: 6.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 72Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 6,400 haAnda City 安达市7 November 2022 · 4 days · 9 km away
- 9,354 haAnda City 安达市6 April 2024 · 6 days · 16 km away
- 10,163 haAnda City 安达市21 March 2026 · 15 days · 19 km away
- 6,928 haAnda City 安达市23 March 2026 · 11 days · 22 km away
- 9,059 haQinggang County 青冈县21 March 2026 · 15 days · 32 km away
- 6,936 haLanxi County 兰西县20 March 2026 · 13 days · 37 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Anda City fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 21 March 2026 to 4 April 2026 (15 days). The perimeter dates it from 23 March 2026 to 31 March 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,427 hectares (34.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Anda City (3,402 ha, 0.9 %); Lanxi County (30 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 15.5 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 12, class Moderate.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of China (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 119 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 2 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Last day with fire: 31 March 2026 → 4 April 2026.
- Start date: 23 March 2026 → 21 March 2026.
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 23 March 2026 to 31 March 2026. 72 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.