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Daowai District fire, 13 November 2025 道外区 · Bin County, Daowai District

Out · last detection 23 Nov 2025, 04:16 UTC

The fire started on 13 November 2025 in Daowai District, China, and satellites saw it burning for 11 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,964 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

Number 48 in China in 2025, of 579.

GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in October 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.

Burnt area
5,964ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
11days
13 Nov 2025 – 23 Nov 2025
Municipalities hit
2
counties
Started on
13 Nov
2025
Heat detections
161
in a single hotspot: 63 MW
Danger at start
15
Moderate · FWI index
Average daily power
129MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Nov23 Nov
23 Nov 2025

How it evolved, day by day

13 Nov 2025 · 38 MW · 6 14 Nov 2025 · 12 MW · 2 16 Nov 2025 · 154 MW · 9 18 Nov 2025 · 548 MW · 55 19 Nov 2025 · 175 MW · 35 20 Nov 2025 · 54 MW · 13 21 Nov 2025 · 59 MW · 13 22 Nov 2025 · 81 MW · 17 23 Nov 2025 · 39 MW · 11
13 Nov 18 Nov 21 Nov 23 Nov

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

The weather it burned in

8°high
56km/h · peak gust
25%lowest humidity

It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 27 Nov.

This area had burned before

57% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 588 ha in 2016, 667 ha in 2017, 336 ha in 2019, 2,338 ha in 2022, 158 ha in 2023, 654 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,377 ha that had burned before.

How big is it?

10 km
It burned the equivalent of 3.8% of the area of London (60 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

  1. Bin County 宾县
    5,238 ha
    1.4 %
  2. Daowai District 道外区 where it started
    739 ha
    1.2 %

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.

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)

Started with Strong wind: 24 % of the area in China

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
13 Nov 2.4 °C 25 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
14 Nov 1.8 °C 28 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 5
15 Nov 4.9 °C 31 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 10
16 Nov 1.2 °C 31 % 47 km/h 0.2 mm Moderate 13
17 Nov -4.8 °C 36 % 46 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
18 Nov -3.4 °C 39 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
19 Nov 5.0 °C 34 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 13
20 Nov 0.6 °C 41 % 44 km/h 0.1 mm Low 10
21 Nov 0.8 °C 39 % 36 km/h 0.3 mm Low 9
22 Nov 8.5 °C 28 % 50 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
23 Nov 6.6 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
24 Nov after -0.7 °C 46 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Low 8
25 Nov after -0.8 °C 42 % 15 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
26 Nov after -0.4 °C 51 % 26 km/h 0.4 mm Low 6
27 Nov after -4.5 °C 46 % 33 km/h 1.5 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 6 Nov 2025
After · 30 Nov 2025

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 26 November 2025 the air beside the fire reached 113 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 70: 4.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak113 µg/m³
Days over the guideline11 days
PM10123 µg/m³
Optical depth0.90
14 Nov17 Nov20 Nov23 Nov26 Nov
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 161Every 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 timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Daowai District fire last?
According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 13 November 2025 to 23 November 2025 (11 days). The perimeter dates it from 16 November 2025 to 23 November 2025.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 5,964 hectares (59.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Bin County (5,238 ha, 1.4 %); Daowai District (739 ha, 1.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 8.5 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 56 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 15, 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.
  1. Name: Bin County → Daowai District.
  2. Start date: 16 November 2025 → 13 November 2025.

RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version

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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 16 November 2025 to 23 November 2025. 161 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.

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.