Tieling County fire, November 2026
铁岭县 · Tieling County, Diaobingshan City, Yinzhou District
Dying down · last detection 11 Nov 2026, 05:08 UTC
Satellites first detected fire on 8 November 2026 in Tieling County, China. It has been active for 4 days, with 107 heat detections and an area with fire of about 1,344 hectares rebuilt from them, spread across 3 municipalities.
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.
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Burned area
satellite only
≈ 1,344ha
Estimated from hotspots: no perimeter has been published yet.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
8 Nov 2026 – 11 Nov 2026
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This is an estimate from the VIIRS pixels that saw fire. It will change when the perimeter is published.
Duration by satellite
satellite only
4days
From 8 Nov 2026 to today: still being detected.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
last detection: 11 Nov 2026, 05:08 UTC
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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 only
8 Nov 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
Date
8 Nov 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only
107
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 46 MW.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (NOAA-20)
Date
8 Nov 2026 – 11 Nov 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only
437MW
Total radiative power on 9 November 2026; hotspots that day: 53.
Source
NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
Date
9 Nov 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
ⓘThis page is not in the change log yet: its first snapshot is saved tonight. What follows is reconstructed from each source’s date.
GWIS (Copernicus) has not yet published the perimeter of this fire. It rebuilds it from hotspots, which can take several days, and it does not always arrive. For now the area is the one rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per pixel). If the perimeter arrives, this page picks it up on its own and keeps the same address.
Is it still active?
No detections since 11 Nov 2026, 05:08 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. 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.
Area with fire
≈ 1,344ha
rebuilt from hotspots, no official perimeter yet
Duration
4days
8 Nov 2026 – 11 Nov 2026
Municipalities hit
3
counties
Started on
8 Nov
2026
Heat detections
107
in a single hotspot: 46 MW
Average daily power
218MW
detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
8 Nov11 Nov
Play back11 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
8 Nov9 Nov10 Nov11 Nov
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
Area with fire inside each municipality, rebuilt from heat detections (about 14 hectares per VIIRS pixel). An estimate until the official perimeter arrives. 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
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Before · 1 Nov 2026
After · 10 Nov 2026
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Detections table· 107Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.›
⬇ Download CSVTimes in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
According to the heat detections seen by satellite, it burned from 8 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 (4 days between the first and the last detection). There is no perimeter yet to date it.
How much area did it burn?
There is no perimeter yet. Heat detections rebuild about 1,344 hectares with fire (13.4 km²), a rough figure; GWIS will give its own when it publishes the perimeter, which can take several days.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 3 municipalities: Tieling County (924 ha, 0.4 %); Diaobingshan City (420 ha, 1.8 %); Yinzhou District (0 ha, 0.0 %).
Is the Tieling County fire still active?
No fire detections since 11 Nov 2026, 05:08 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
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.
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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No perimeter yet: the area (≈ 1,344 ha) is estimated by counting VIIRS pixels with fire, about 14 ha each.
Dates of the first and last VIIRS detection of the cluster. 107 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
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.