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Wildfires in Dechang County 德昌县

Dechang County, China, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 20,808 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 9.1% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 8).

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. Wed 28 Low 23° · 46 % · 29 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 23° · 54 % · 24 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 22° · 54 % · 22 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 23° · 49 % · 37 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 24° · 51 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Low 23° · 54 % · 29 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 22° · 48 % · 30 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Low 23° · 46 % · 25 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

20,808
hectares burned
9.1 %
of its area
11
fires
2,297
km²

How many times has Dechang County burned?

Dechang County has burned 11 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Dechang County fire, 20 January 2026, with 1,130 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 20,808 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 19,623 hectares, 8.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
5
years with fire
20,808
cumulative ha
19,623
distinct ha

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 Dechang County

  1. 1,130 ha Dechang County fire, 20 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,125 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 4,791 ha Dechang County fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 5,070 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 1,029 ha Dechang County fire, January 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,026 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,752 ha Dechang County fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 2,900 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,039 ha Dechang County fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,035 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,063 ha Dechang County fire, 1 February 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,060 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 2,946 ha Dechang County fire, 31 January 2023 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 2,935 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,087 ha Dechang County fire, 31 January 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,082 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 2,181 ha Dechang County fire, 12 January 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,173 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,427 ha Dechang County fire, 12 January 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,422 ha in total · 4 days
  11. 1,363 ha Dechang County fire, January 2016 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,355 ha in total · 4 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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