Changling County fire, 12 November 2025 长岭县 · Changling County
The fire started on 12 November 2025 in Changling County, China, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,043 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 762th largest in Jilin Province since 2016 (of 802 with a page). Number 664 in China in 2025, of 711.
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- Burnt area
- 1,043ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 12 Nov 2025 – 12 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- counties
- Started on
- 12 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 1
- in a single hotspot: 1 MW
- Danger at start
- 19
- Moderate · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
It had gone 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
68% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 485 ha in 2022, 615 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 712 ha that had burned before.
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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1,038 ha0.2 %
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 4.1 hectares of built-up land and about 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov | 12.9 °C | 32 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 13 Nov after | 6.4 °C | 16 % | 51 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 14 Nov after | 6.7 °C | 15 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 15 Nov after | 10.7 °C | 51 % | 49 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 16 Nov after | 3.4 °C | 25 % | 50 km/h | 0.4 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 17 Nov after | -2.3 °C | 33 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 18 Nov after | -2.0 °C | 33 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 11 |
| 19 Nov after | 6.2 °C | 28 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 20 Nov after | 2.8 °C | 26 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 21 Nov after | 4.4 °C | 31 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 22 Nov after | 9.7 °C | 30 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
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 14 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 82 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 44: 2.9 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 · 1Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 4,714 haGongzhuling City 公主岭市12 November 2025 · 10 days · 22 km away
- 7,095 haNong'an County 农安县16 November 2025 · 7 days · 24 km away
- 3,062 haChangling County 长岭县16 March 2026 · 8 days · 24 km away
- 2,441 haGongzhuling City 公主岭市20 November 2024 · 1 day · 28 km away
- 7,412 haGongzhuling City 公主岭市28 October 2025 · 11 days · 29 km away
- 2,964 haChangling County 长岭县17 March 2026 · 4 days · 33 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Changling County fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 November 2025 and 12 November 2025: 1 day between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,043 hectares (10.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Changling County (1,038 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 12.9 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 54 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 19, 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. One Suomi-NPP VIIRS detection 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.