How long did the Tailai County fire last?

According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 25 October 2026 to 1 November 2026 (8 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 October 2026 to 31 October 2026.

How much area did it burn?

The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 13,904 hectares (139.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.

Which municipalities burned?

The fire only entered Tailai County (13,824 ha, 3.5 %).

Is the Tailai County fire still active?

Yes: satellites detected fire on 1 Nov 2026, 04:57 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.

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.

CN · China · 2026-10-25 → 2026-11-01

Tailai County fire, October 2026 泰来县 · Tailai County

Burning · last detection 1 Nov 2026, 04:57 UTC

The fire started on 25 October 2026 in Tailai County, China, and satellites saw it burning for 8 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 13,904 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 35th largest in Heilongjiang Province since 2016 (of 1910 with a page). Number 29 in China in 2026, of 1088.

The power measured by the satellite is low (26.4 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Is it still active?

Satellites detected fire on 1 Nov 2026, 04:57 UTC. Everything suggests it is still burning. 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.

Burnt area: 13,904ha; GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration: 8days; 25 Oct 2026 – 1 Nov 2026
Municipalities hit: 1; counties
Started on: 25 Oct; 2026
Heat detections: 152; in a single hotspot: 26 MW
Average daily power: 172MW; detected power per day, on average

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 25 Oct1 Nov

Play back 1 Nov 2026

How it evolved, day by day

25 Oct 27 Oct 29 Oct 31 Oct

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

How big is it?

It burned the equivalent of 8.8% of the area of London (139 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

Tailai County 泰来县 where it started

13,824 ha reached on 25 Oct

3.5 %

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.

Before and after, from space

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

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Before · 18 Oct 2026

After · 31 Oct 2026

Before After

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 152Every 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 time	Satellite	FRP (MW)	Lat	Lon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Tailai County fire last?: According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 25 October 2026 to 1 November 2026 (8 days). The perimeter dates it from 26 October 2026 to 31 October 2026.
How much area did it burn?: The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 13,904 hectares (139.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?: The fire only entered Tailai County (13,824 ha, 3.5 %).
Is the Tailai County fire still active?: Yes: satellites detected fire on 1 Nov 2026, 04:57 UTC. Check the emergency service for the official status.
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 ›

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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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 26 October 2026 to 31 October 2026. 152 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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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.