Daoli District fire, 12 November 2025 Daoli District, Shuangcheng City
The fire started on 12 November 2025 in Daoli District, China, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,744 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
It is the 722th largest in Heilongjiang Province since 2016 (of 1751 with a page). Number 338 in China in 2025, of 736.
- Burnt area
- 1,744ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 11days
- 12 Nov 2025 – 22 Nov 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- counties
- Started on
- 12 Nov
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 44
- in a single hotspot: 46 MW
- Danger at start
- 10
- Low · FWI index
- Energy released
- 412MW
- sum of detected power
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 3 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.1 mm on 27 Nov.
This area had burned before
85% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2016, 763 ha in 2017, 338 ha in 2018, 924 ha in 2020, 927 ha in 2021, 879 ha in 2022, 71 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,479 ha that had burned before.
- 927 ha Daoli District fire, April 2021 1,605 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 879 ha Daoli District fire, April 2022 1,203 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 96 ha Shuangcheng City fire, March 2017 1,369 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Daoli District where it started1,724 ha3.7 %
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17 ha0.0 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
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 | 10.4 °C | 41 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 13 Nov | 3.3 °C | 20 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 14 Nov | 2.8 °C | 23 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 15 Nov | 7.8 °C | 32 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 16 Nov | 1.3 °C | 31 % | 49 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 17 Nov | -3.9 °C | 39 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 18 Nov | -3.0 °C | 41 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 19 Nov | 5.5 °C | 32 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 20 Nov | 1.3 °C | 33 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 21 Nov | 1.6 °C | 38 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 22 Nov | 9.0 °C | 26 % | 46 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 23 Nov after | 7.4 °C | 29 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 24 Nov after | -0.2 °C | 47 % | 32 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 8 |
| 25 Nov after | -1.1 °C | 43 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 26 Nov after | 0.0 °C | 50 % | 30 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 6 |
| 27 Nov after | -4.5 °C | 45 % | 32 km/h | 1.1 mm | Very low 2 |
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 78 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 59: 3.9 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 · 44Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 12,574 haShuangcheng City30 March 2017 · 7 days · 12 km away
- 6,339 haShuangcheng City28 March 2023 · 5 days · 13 km away
- 6,562 haShuangcheng City7 April 2021 · 4 days · 15 km away
- 19,799 haShuangcheng City2 April 2017 · 15 days · 19 km away
- 7,701 haShuangcheng City30 October 2025 · 9 days · 33 km away
- 12,874 haZhaodong City15 March 2026 · 19 days · 36 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Daoli District fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 12 November 2025 and 22 November 2025: 11 days 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 1,744 hectares (17.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Daoli District (1,724 ha, 3.7 %); Shuangcheng City (17 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 10.4 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 55 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
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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.