Fuyu fire, 14 March 2026 扶余市 · Fuyu
The fire started on 14 March 2026 in Fuyu, China, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,954 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 162th largest in Jilin Province since 2016 (of 812 with a page). Number 221 in China in 2026, of 932.
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- Burnt area
- 2,954ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 8days
- 14 Mar 2026 – 21 Mar 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- counties
- Started on
- 14 Mar
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 124
- in a single hotspot: 53 MW
- Danger at start
- 7
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 96MW
- 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 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 11.3 mm on 3 Apr.
This area had burned before
46% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 96 ha in 2016, 212 ha in 2017, 57 ha in 2019, 267 ha in 2020, 1,065 ha in 2023, 54 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 1,361 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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2,969 ha0.7 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Mar | 2.6 °C | 25 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 15 Mar | 7.8 °C | 11 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 16 Mar | 5.3 °C | 20 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 17 Mar | 11.7 °C | 17 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 18 Mar | -0.7 °C | 21 % | 59 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 11 |
| 19 Mar | 0.6 °C | 28 % | 51 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 20 Mar | 2.4 °C | 31 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 21 Mar | 11.6 °C | 20 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 22 Mar after | 11.5 °C | 24 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 23 Mar after | 12.8 °C | 17 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 24 Mar after | 17.4 °C | 16 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 25 Mar after | 15.4 °C | 28 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 26 Mar after | 13.3 °C | 20 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 27 Mar after | 11.5 °C | 23 % | 32 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 11 |
| 28 Mar after | 13.9 °C | 17 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 29 Mar after | 11.6 °C | 30 % | 56 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 30 Mar after | 11.1 °C | 29 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 31 Mar after | 14.1 °C | 16 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 1 Apr after | 7.9 °C | 11 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 2 Apr after | 15.1 °C | 8 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 3 Apr after | 4.1 °C | 47 % | 42 km/h | 11.3 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 131 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 106: 7.1 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 · 124Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 7,701 haShuangcheng City30 October 2025 · 9 days · 18 km away
- 9,779 haFuyu 扶余市24 March 2026 · 7 days · 25 km away
- 12,874 haZhaodong City 肇东市15 March 2026 · 19 days · 27 km away
- 5,423 haZhaoyuan County 肇源县3 November 2025 · 5 days · 27 km away
- 5,318 haShuangcheng City19 March 2026 · 9 days · 27 km away
- 12,507 haFuyu 扶余市15 March 2026 · 14 days · 29 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Fuyu fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 14 March 2026 and 21 March 2026: 8 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 2,954 hectares (29.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Fuyu (2,969 ha, 0.7 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 17.4 °C, humidity dropped to 11 % and gusts hit 59 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
Satellite cross-check
Does something look wrong on this page?
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.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 124 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.
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.