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Wildfires in Bayan County 巴彦县

Bayan County, China, has had 50 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 147,315 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 47% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 23 Low 15° · 50 % · 54 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Moderate 12° · 22 % · 54 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Moderate 11° · 21 % · 44 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Moderate 9° · 33 % · 31 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Moderate 4° · 30 % · 58 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Moderate 2° · 26 % · 39 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Low 7° · 33 % · 38 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Low 9° · 41 % · 59 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

147,315
hectares burned
47 %
of its area
50
fires
3,122
km²

How many times has Bayan County burned?

Bayan County has burned 50 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Bayan County fire, 31 March 2026, with 2,103 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 9× 17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 14× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 11× 25
  11. 8× 26
50
fires
7
years with fire
147,315
cumulative ha
31 Mar 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 1,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in China →

Fires that entered Bayan County

  1. 2,103 ha Bayan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,096 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 1,856 ha Bayan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,861 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 14,716 ha Bayan County fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 4.7% of the municipality · 14,705 ha in total · 10 days
  4. 8,197 ha Bayan County fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 8,284 ha in total · 10 days
  5. 6,044 ha Bayan County fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 6,020 ha in total · 13 days
  6. 2,413 ha Bayan County fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 12 days
  7. 3,114 ha Bayan County fire, 22 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,123 ha in total · 11 days
  8. 56,504 ha Hulan District fire, 17 March 2026 18% of the municipality · 118,357 ha in total · 19 days
  9. 1,076 ha Bayan County fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,074 ha in total · 5 days
  10. 2,454 ha Bayan County fire, 17 November 2025 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 2,450 ha in total · 6 days
  11. 1,469 ha Bayan County fire, 16 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,468 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 999 ha Mulan County fire, 16 November 2025 0.3% of the municipality · 1,613 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 49 ha Mulan County fire, 15 November 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 3,991 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 2,264 ha Bayan County fire, 14 November 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,271 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 1,752 ha Bayan County fire, 20 April 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,754 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 1,158 ha Bayan County fire, 20 April 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,163 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 1,550 ha Bayan County fire, 20 April 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,550 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 2,294 ha Bayan County fire, 20 April 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,307 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 12 ha Hulan District fire, April 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,112 ha in total · 4 days
  20. 39 ha Beilin District fire, 21 April 2024 0.0% of the municipality · 1,188 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 64 ha Hulan District fire, 27 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 7,497 ha in total · 7 days
  22. 1,249 ha Bayan County fire, 24 April 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 3,127 ha Bayan County fire, 24 April 2022 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 3,132 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 1,120 ha Bayan County fire, 24 April 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,120 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 9 ha Hulan District fire, 18 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,265 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 2 ha Bin County fire, 18 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,699 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 21 ha Hulan District fire, 17 April 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 1,345 ha in total · 4 days
  28. 38 ha Beilin District fire, 21 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,180 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 1,665 ha Bayan County fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,659 ha in total · 2 days
  30. 1,032 ha Bayan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,038 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 219 ha Hulan District fire, 19 April 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 1,198 ha in total · 3 days
  32. 2 ha Hulan District fire, 19 April 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,462 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 1,222 ha Bayan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,229 ha in total · 3 days
  34. 1,520 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,039 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 1,068 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,069 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 1,238 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,243 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 1,750 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,744 ha in total · 7 days
  38. 2,360 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,051 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,554 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,557 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,305 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,308 ha in total · 4 days
  41. 3,463 ha Bayan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 3,473 ha in total · 4 days
  42. 1,123 ha Bayan County fire, 1 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,121 ha in total · 4 days
  43. 1,226 ha Bayan County fire, 1 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 29 ha Hulan District fire, 1 November 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,715 ha in total · 6 days
  45. 1,225 ha Bayan County fire, 1 November 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,220 ha in total · 3 days
  46. 3,939 ha Bayan County fire, 1 November 2017 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 4,599 ha in total · 3 days
  47. 4,557 ha Bayan County fire, 1 November 2017 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 4,570 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 1,066 ha Bayan County fire, October 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,070 ha in total · 4 days
  49. 58 ha Hulan District fire, 29 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,025 ha in total · 5 days
  50. 0 ha Qing'an County fire, 23 October 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 21,802 ha in total · 7 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/Lee Beryman, OpenStreetMap (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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