Burned area
satellite only3,700ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 17 Oct 2022 – 20 Oct 2022
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No official record is matched to this page to compare it with.
CN · China · –
Quanzhou County fire, 17 October 2022 全州县 · Quanzhou County
Out · last measured on 20 Oct 2022
The fire started on 17 October 2022 in Quanzhou County, China, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,700 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 2th largest in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region since 2016 (of 14 with a page). Number 17 in China in 2022, of 210.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only4days
17 Oct 2022 to 20 Oct 2022: first and last day with fire on the page.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 17 Oct 2022 – 20 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 only17 Oct 2022
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 17 Oct 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
model34.1FWI · high
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 7.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 17 Oct 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
model27.2°C · 36% RH
High of 27.2 °C and minimum humidity of 36% on 17 October 2022; gusts of 66 km/h on 17 October 2022.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 17 Oct 2022 – 20 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.
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 GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the ERA5 reanalysis
What was saved on 24 October 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
- 3,700 ha
- Dates
- 17 Oct 2022 – 20 Oct 2022
- Name
- Quanzhou County
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/quanzhou-county-2022-10-2?v=2026-10-24A 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.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire quanzhou-county-2022-10-2.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-17 | 0 | 0 | 27.2 | 17.5 | 36 | 19.7 | 66.2 | 0 | 34.1 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-18 | 0 | 0 | 24.2 | 15.5 | 30 | 17.6 | 58.3 | 0 | 32.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-19 | 0 | 0 | 24.3 | 12.6 | 24 | 13.2 | 43.9 | 0 | 30.3 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-20 | 0 | 0 | 25.6 | 15.8 | 33 | 6.3 | 18.7 | 0 | 25.7 | alto | 1 |
| 2022-10-21 | 0 | 0 | 28.8 | 17.7 | 39 | 7.7 | 26.6 | 0 | 25.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-22 | 0 | 0 | 30.1 | 18.1 | 49 | 9.8 | 32 | 0 | 23.9 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-23 | 0 | 0 | 29.5 | 18.1 | 30 | 11.5 | 38.5 | 0 | 28.3 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-24 | 0 | 0 | 28.3 | 17.7 | 34 | 10.8 | 36 | 0 | 28.1 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-25 | 0 | 0 | 27.3 | 16 | 37 | 7.2 | 21.6 | 0 | 25.8 | alto | 0 |
| 2022-10-26 | 0 | 0 | 29.1 | 18.2 | 48 | 9.2 | 29.9 | 0.6 | 21.1 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-10-27 | 0 | 0 | 22.4 | 15.7 | 61 | 11.7 | 36.7 | 0 | 18.5 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-10-28 | 0 | 0 | 18.7 | 15.4 | 75 | 10.3 | 33.5 | 0 | 12.6 | moderado | 0 |
| 2022-10-29 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 16.2 | 82 | 9.6 | 31 | 0.2 | 9.5 | bajo | 0 |
| 2022-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 20.2 | 16.6 | 71 | 11.6 | 38.5 | 0.4 | 10.9 | bajo | 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
- 3,700ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 17 Oct 2022 – 20 Oct 2022
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- counties
- Started on
- 17 Oct
- 2022
- Danger at start
- 34
- High · FWI index
Where it burned
The weather it burned in
27°high
66km/h · peak gust
24%lowest humidity
It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
1% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 38 ha in 2017.
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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3,723 ha0.9 %
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 area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (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)
Started with Strong wind: 24 % of the area in China
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct | 27.2 °C | 36 % | 66 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 18 Oct | 24.2 °C | 30 % | 58 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 19 Oct | 24.3 °C | 24 % | 44 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 30 |
| 20 Oct | 25.6 °C | 33 % | 19 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 21 Oct after | 28.8 °C | 39 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 22 Oct after | 30.1 °C | 49 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 23 Oct after | 29.5 °C | 30 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 24 Oct after | 28.3 °C | 34 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 25 Oct after | 27.3 °C | 37 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 26 Oct after | 29.1 °C | 48 % | 30 km/h | 0.6 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 27 Oct after | 22.4 °C | 61 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 18 |
| 28 Oct after | 18.7 °C | 75 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 13 |
| 29 Oct after | 19.0 °C | 82 % | 31 km/h | 0.2 mm | Low 10 |
| 30 Oct after | 20.2 °C | 71 % | 38 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 11 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 10 Oct 2022
After · 27 Oct 2022
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 20 October 2022 the air beside the fire reached 140 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 69: 4.6 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak140 µg/m³
Days over the guideline9 days
PM10201 µg/m³
Optical depth0.92
WHO 15
15 Oct17 Oct19 Oct21 Oct23 Oct
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Fair
Moderate
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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)
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Quanzhou County fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 17 October 2022 and 20 October 2022: 4 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 3,700 hectares (37.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Quanzhou County (3,723 ha, 0.9 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 27.2 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 66 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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 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. 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.