Burned area
satellite only2,087ha
Union of 2 GWIS (Copernicus) perimeters: overlapping areas count once.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 24 Aug 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
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CN · China · –
Jungar Banner fire, August 2022 准格尔旗 · Jungar Banner, Ejin Horo Banner
Out · last measured on 27 Oct 2022
The fire started on 24 August 2022 in Jungar Banner, China, and satellites saw it burning for 65 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 2,087 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.
This page is probably a fire complex, not a single fire. GWIS merges into one perimeter the fires that touch over weeks, which in large burning seasons can join dozens of separate fires. The total area is reliable; the origin and dates refer to the whole complex.
We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only65days
24 Aug 2022 to 27 Oct 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 24 Aug 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only24 Aug 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 24 Aug 2022
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Danger at the start
model0.0FWI · very low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 0.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 24 Aug 2022, local noon
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model26.3°C · 26% RH
High of 26.3 °C and minimum humidity of 26% on 13 September 2022; gusts of 58 km/h on 8 October 2022.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 24 Aug 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
- Model
- ERA5 0,25° (ECMWF · Copernicus C3S) · Open-Meteo.com
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
Living inside
model≈ 1,500people
Estimated residents inside the perimeter and 8.3 ha of built-up area (100 m grid, epoch 2020).
- Source
- GHSL R2023A · JRC
- Date
- calculated on 24 October 2026
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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.
This page’s change log has been kept since 24 October 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
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logArea: 3,142 → 2,087 ha.
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 5 November 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 2,087 ha
- Dates
- 24 Aug 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
- Name
- Jungar Banner
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/jungar-banner-2022-08?v=2026-11-05A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
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CSV for this fire jungar-banner-2022-08.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-08-24 | 0 | 0 | 19.8 | 11.2 | 67 | 17.4 | 28.1 | 5.1 | 0 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-25 | 0 | 0 | 23.5 | 12.4 | 32 | 17.8 | 29.5 | 0 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-26 | 0 | 0 | 20.8 | 14.1 | 38 | 17.1 | 29.5 | 0 | 2.1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-27 | 0 | 0 | 17.3 | 10.9 | 41 | 14.8 | 24.1 | 1.9 | 5.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-28 | 0 | 0 | 14.5 | 10.8 | 85 | 19.1 | 34.2 | 4.6 | 0 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-29 | 0 | 0 | 20.8 | 11 | 51 | 10.4 | 18.4 | 0 | 0.3 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-30 | 0 | 0 | 24.3 | 11.6 | 32 | 19.2 | 34.6 | 0 | 0.9 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 10.7 | 31 | 14.6 | 26.6 | 0 | 5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-01 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 10.7 | 26 | 12.1 | 25.6 | 0 | 8.1 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-02 | 0 | 0 | 20.5 | 12.1 | 62 | 19.7 | 34.9 | 1 | 8.8 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-03 | 0 | 0 | 20.6 | 14.5 | 48 | 15.8 | 34.6 | 6.1 | 0 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-04 | 0 | 0 | 24.5 | 11.2 | 28 | 23.6 | 41.4 | 0 | 2.2 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-05 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 10.9 | 34 | 20.8 | 36 | 0 | 4.5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-06 | 0 | 0 | 22.9 | 8 | 23 | 22.3 | 38.9 | 0 | 16.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-07 | 0 | 0 | 24.9 | 6.8 | 28 | 11.8 | 24.1 | 0 | 12 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-08 | 0 | 0 | 25.3 | 14.9 | 29 | 10.9 | 24.1 | 0 | 11.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-09 | 0 | 0 | 22.7 | 13.1 | 38 | 10.1 | 15.1 | 0 | 7.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-10 | 0 | 0 | 20.3 | 11.8 | 49 | 19.2 | 41.4 | 0 | 13.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-11 | 0 | 0 | 23.6 | 10.5 | 40 | 9.3 | 19.1 | 0 | 7.5 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-12 | 0 | 0 | 25.3 | 10.5 | 37 | 9.8 | 14 | 0 | 6.3 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-13 | 0 | 0 | 26.3 | 13.7 | 26 | 19 | 33.1 | 0 | 11.7 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 23.3 | 12.3 | 39 | 14.5 | 25.2 | 0 | 11.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-15 | 0 | 0 | 23.2 | 12.5 | 42 | 12.1 | 23.8 | 0 | 12.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-16 | 0 | 0 | 23.1 | 12.4 | 44 | 17.9 | 32.4 | 0 | 13.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-17 | 0 | 0 | 25.5 | 14.2 | 40 | 9.8 | 18.4 | 0.1 | 10.8 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-18 | 0 | 0 | 25.7 | 12.9 | 32 | 13.8 | 26.3 | 0 | 15.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-19 | 0 | 0 | 16.8 | 6.4 | 44 | 25.7 | 43.2 | 18.6 | 0.1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-20 | 0 | 0 | 17.6 | 5.5 | 38 | 12.9 | 20.2 | 0 | 0 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-21 | 0 | 0 | 19.6 | 6.9 | 45 | 28.4 | 47.5 | 2.1 | 4.1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-22 | 0 | 0 | 15.9 | 5.1 | 22 | 34.6 | 57.2 | 0 | 8.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-23 | 0 | 0 | 15.9 | 0.4 | 25 | 12.8 | 22.3 | 0 | 4.8 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-24 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2.3 | 28 | 18.9 | 34.2 | 0 | 12.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-25 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 5.4 | 36 | 14.4 | 26.3 | 0 | 9.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-26 | 0 | 0 | 23.2 | 8.3 | 29 | 13.2 | 27 | 0 | 10 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-09-27 | 0 | 0 | 22.8 | 9.2 | 36 | 16.5 | 32.8 | 0 | 12.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-28 | 0 | 0 | 24.6 | 9.1 | 28 | 19.2 | 34.6 | 1.1 | 13.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-29 | 0 | 0 | 24.9 | 10.1 | 27 | 23.7 | 40.7 | 0 | 12.5 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-09-30 | 0 | 0 | 25.1 | 11.2 | 31 | 21.9 | 35.6 | 0 | 14.4 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-01 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 14.6 | 49 | 19.8 | 38.9 | 0.1 | 15.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-02 | 0 | 0 | 22.6 | 13.6 | 50 | 28.8 | 31.3 | 12.9 | 5.9 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-03 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 1.5 | 57 | 29.2 | 51.1 | 9.8 | 0.1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-04 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 | -0.7 | 38 | 19.8 | 33.8 | 0 | 1 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-05 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | 3 | 36 | 13.9 | 22.7 | 0 | 0.9 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-06 | 0 | 0 | 12.9 | 4.1 | 30 | 20.4 | 35.6 | 0 | 5 | muy_bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-07 | 0 | 0 | 15.6 | 0.7 | 35 | 22.8 | 38.5 | 0.3 | 8.9 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-08 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | -0.2 | 29 | 34.5 | 57.6 | 0 | 19.1 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-09 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | -2 | 34 | 33.2 | 53.6 | 0 | 20.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-10 | 0 | 0 | 11.4 | -4.1 | 21 | 11.6 | 23 | 0 | 9.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-11 | 0 | 0 | 14.9 | -2.5 | 23 | 16.3 | 31 | 0 | 12 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 15.5 | 2.3 | 40 | 16.2 | 32 | 0 | 12.9 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-13 | 0 | 0 | 15.8 | 6.3 | 43 | 12.3 | 20.5 | 0.1 | 7.8 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-14 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 5.5 | 30 | 16.2 | 29.5 | 0 | 10.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-15 | 0 | 0 | 17.8 | 2.3 | 19 | 15 | 29.9 | 0 | 13.4 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-16 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 1.5 | 17 | 20.3 | 36.4 | 0 | 17.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 9.2 | -1.8 | 13 | 14.6 | 20.2 | 0 | 10.6 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-18 | 0 | 0 | 15.2 | -4 | 18 | 16.7 | 33.5 | 0 | 17.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-19 | 0 | 0 | 18.5 | 1.1 | 24 | 26.1 | 45 | 0 | 23.9 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-20 | 0 | 0 | 15.4 | 9.3 | 41 | 24.7 | 39.2 | 0 | 23.6 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-21 | 0 | 0 | 19.9 | 3.6 | 12 | 25.8 | 44.6 | 0 | 20.3 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-22 | 0 | 0 | 16.1 | 1.5 | 10 | 13.3 | 23.8 | 0 | 16.8 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-23 | 0 | 0 | 16.1 | 0.5 | 16 | 11.6 | 19.1 | 0 | 15.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-24 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 18 | 21.9 | 41 | 0 | 26.5 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-25 | 0 | 0 | 16.1 | 5.8 | 47 | 26.8 | 43.6 | 2.9 | 6.7 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 14.4 | 6.6 | 46 | 17.2 | 30.2 | 0.2 | 7.1 | bajo | 1 |
| 2022-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 15.8 | 4.1 | 45 | 23.9 | 44.6 | 0 | 13.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2022-10-28 | 0 | 0 | 13.9 | 3.3 | 48 | 23.4 | 41 | 1.9 | 13 | moderado | 0 |
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We have the GWIS perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.
- Burnt area
- 2,087ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 65days
- 24 Aug 2022 – 27 Oct 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 2
- counties
- Started on
- 24 Aug
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 0
- Very low · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
26°high
58km/h · peak gust
10%lowest humidity
It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.9 mm on 28 Oct.
This area had burned before
100% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 600 ha in 2016, 564 ha in 2017, 5,506 ha in 2018, 2,239 ha in 2019, 1,413 ha in 2020, 8,464 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,569 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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3,128 ha0.4 %
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Ejin Horo Banner 伊金霍洛旗2 ha0.0 %
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 2020Built-up area8.3 ha
Residents≈ 1,500
Inside the perimeter there were about 8.3 hectares of built-up land and about 1,500 residents (GHSL 2020, 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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug | 19.8 °C | 67 % | 28 km/h | 5.1 mm | Very low 0 |
| 25 Aug | 23.5 °C | 32 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 26 Aug | 20.8 °C | 38 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 27 Aug | 17.3 °C | 41 % | 24 km/h | 1.9 mm | Low 5 |
| 28 Aug | 14.5 °C | 85 % | 34 km/h | 4.6 mm | Very low 0 |
| 29 Aug | 20.8 °C | 51 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 30 Aug | 24.3 °C | 32 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 31 Aug | 22.5 °C | 31 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
| 1 Sept | 24.0 °C | 26 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 2 Sept | 20.5 °C | 62 % | 35 km/h | 1.0 mm | Low 9 |
| 3 Sept | 20.6 °C | 48 % | 35 km/h | 6.1 mm | Very low 0 |
| 4 Sept | 24.5 °C | 28 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 2 |
| 5 Sept | 22.0 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 4 |
| 6 Sept | 22.9 °C | 23 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 7 Sept | 24.9 °C | 28 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 8 Sept | 25.3 °C | 29 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 9 Sept | 22.7 °C | 38 % | 15 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 7 |
| 10 Sept | 20.3 °C | 49 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 11 Sept | 23.6 °C | 40 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 12 Sept | 25.3 °C | 37 % | 14 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 6 |
| 13 Sept | 26.3 °C | 26 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 14 Sept | 23.3 °C | 39 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 15 Sept | 23.2 °C | 42 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 16 Sept | 23.1 °C | 44 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 17 Sept | 25.5 °C | 40 % | 18 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 11 |
| 18 Sept | 25.7 °C | 32 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 19 Sept | 16.8 °C | 44 % | 43 km/h | 18.6 mm | Very low 0 |
| 20 Sept | 17.6 °C | 38 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 0 |
| 21 Sept | 19.6 °C | 45 % | 48 km/h | 2.1 mm | Very low 4 |
| 22 Sept | 15.9 °C | 22 % | 57 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 8 |
| 23 Sept | 15.9 °C | 25 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
| 24 Sept | 19.0 °C | 28 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 25 Sept | 22.5 °C | 36 % | 26 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 26 Sept | 23.2 °C | 29 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 27 Sept | 22.8 °C | 36 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 28 Sept | 24.6 °C | 28 % | 35 km/h | 1.1 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 29 Sept | 24.9 °C | 27 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 30 Sept | 25.1 °C | 31 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 1 Oct | 22.0 °C | 49 % | 39 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 2 Oct | 22.6 °C | 50 % | 31 km/h | 12.9 mm | Low 6 |
| 3 Oct | 12.5 °C | 57 % | 51 km/h | 9.8 mm | Very low 0 |
| 4 Oct | 8.2 °C | 38 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 5 Oct | 9.1 °C | 36 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 1 |
| 6 Oct | 12.9 °C | 30 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very low 5 |
| 7 Oct | 15.6 °C | 35 % | 38 km/h | 0.3 mm | Low 9 |
| 8 Oct | 10.4 °C | 29 % | 58 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 9 Oct | 5.1 °C | 34 % | 54 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 10 Oct | 11.4 °C | 21 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 10 |
| 11 Oct | 14.9 °C | 23 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 12 Oct | 15.5 °C | 40 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 13 Oct | 15.8 °C | 43 % | 20 km/h | 0.1 mm | Low 8 |
| 14 Oct | 17.0 °C | 30 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 15 Oct | 17.8 °C | 19 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 16 Oct | 10.8 °C | 17 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 17 Oct | 9.2 °C | 13 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Low 11 |
| 18 Oct | 15.2 °C | 18 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 19 Oct | 18.5 °C | 24 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 20 Oct | 15.4 °C | 41 % | 39 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 21 Oct | 19.9 °C | 12 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 22 Oct | 16.1 °C | 10 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 23 Oct | 16.1 °C | 16 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 24 Oct | 19.0 °C | 18 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 25 Oct | 16.1 °C | 47 % | 44 km/h | 2.9 mm | Low 7 |
| 26 Oct | 14.4 °C | 46 % | 30 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 7 |
| 27 Oct | 15.8 °C | 45 % | 45 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 28 Oct after | 13.9 °C | 48 % | 41 km/h | 1.9 mm | Moderate 13 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 17 Aug 2022
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 25 October 2022 the air beside the fire reached 48 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 36: 2.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak48 µg/m³
Days over the guideline43 days
PM10235 µg/m³
Optical depth1.13
WHO 15
22 Aug5 Sept19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct
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)
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Jungar Banner fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 24 August 2022 and 27 October 2022: 65 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 2,087 hectares (20.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire entered 2 municipalities: Jungar Banner (3,128 ha, 0.4 %); Ejin Horo Banner (2 ha, 0.0 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 26.3 °C, humidity dropped to 10 % and gusts hit 58 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, class High.
- 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 · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Area: 3,142 → 2,087 ha.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 2 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. No 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 2020, 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.