How long did the Anda City fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 23 March 2026 to 2 April 2026 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 March 2026 to 2 April 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,928 hectares (69.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire entered 2 municipalities: Qinggang County (4,311 ha, 1.6 %); Anda City (2,630 ha, 0.7 %).

What was the weather like?

During the fire the temperature reached 15.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 13, 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.

CN · China · 2026-03-23 → 2026-04-02

Anda City fire, 23 March 2026 安达市 · Qinggang County, Anda City

Out · last detection 1 Apr 2026, 05:41 UTC

The fire started on 23 March 2026 in Anda City, China, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 6,928 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 111th largest in Heilongjiang Province since 2016 (of 1920 with a page). Number 85 in China in 2026, of 1103.

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Burnt area: 6,928ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 11days; 23 Mar 2026 – 2 Apr 2026
Municipalities hit: 2; counties
Started on: 23 Mar; 2026
Heat detections: 208; in a single hotspot: 64 MW
Danger at start: 5; Very low · FWI index
Average daily power: 294MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Mar2 Apr

Play back 1 Apr 2026

How it evolved, day by day

23 Mar 25 Mar 27 Mar 29 Mar 30 Mar 31 Mar

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

16°high

58km/h · peak gust

18%lowest humidity

It had gone 9 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

61% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 159 ha in 2017, 559 ha in 2022, 3 ha in 2023, 4,167 ha in 2024, 81 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 4,260 ha that had burned before.

3,698 ha Anda City fire, April 2024 9,354 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 4.4% of the area of London (69 km² against 1,583 km²).

London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).

This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.

What happened to each town

Qinggang County 青冈县

4,311 ha reached on 23 Mar

1.6 %
Anda City 安达市 where it started

2,630 ha reached on 24 Mar

0.7 %

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 2025

Built-up area98 ha

Residents≈ 5,200

Inside the perimeter there were about 98 hectares of built-up land and about 5,200 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)
23 Mar	10.6 °C	25 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Very low 5
24 Mar	15.6 °C	21 %	53 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 11
25 Mar	14.2 °C	31 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
26 Mar	12.0 °C	27 %	30 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
27 Mar	10.1 °C	32 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
28 Mar	12.3 °C	22 %	29 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 7
29 Mar	9.6 °C	40 %	58 km/h	0.3 mm	Moderate 11
30 Mar	9.9 °C	34 %	36 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 8
31 Mar	13.6 °C	23 %	41 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
1 Apr	6.2 °C	18 %	45 km/h	0.0 mm	Moderate 13
2 Apr	8.9 °C	20 %	34 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 10
3 Apr after	4.5 °C	33 %	35 km/h	0.7 mm	Low 6
4 Apr after	7.8 °C	28 %	16 km/h	0.0 mm	Low 6
5 Apr after	1.7 °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.

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Before · 16 Mar 2026

After · 9 Apr 2026

Before After

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 · Copernicus

On 25 March 2026 the air beside the fire reached 118 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 76: 5.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak118 µg/m³

Days over the guideline12 days

PM10135 µg/m³

Optical depth1.13

WHO 15

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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 · 208Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.

⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.

Date and time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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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 23 March 2026 to 2 April 2026 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 March 2026 to 2 April 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 6,928 hectares (69.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire entered 2 municipalities: Qinggang County (4,311 ha, 1.6 %); Anda City (2,630 ha, 0.7 %).
What was the weather like?: During the fire the temperature reached 15.6 °C, humidity dropped to 18 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 13, 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

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GWIS · Copernicus ↗

History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.

26 October 2026 Start date: 26 March 2026 → 23 March 2026.

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How we know this

Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 26 March 2026 to 2 April 2026. 208 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.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.

Where it burned