Wildfires in Dongshan District 东山区
Dongshan District, China, has had 9 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 13,329 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
Only fires of 1,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.
These figures leave out one page with faulty data, under review. They appear in the lists, marked.
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast- Thu 12 Very low 1° · 65 % · 33 km/h
- Fri 13 Very low 1° · 55 % · 32 km/h
- Sat 14 Very low -1° · 57 % · 27 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 0° · 40 % · 29 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low -5° · 40 % · 33 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low -5° · 40 % · 21 km/h
- Wed 18 Very low -7° · 74 % · 43 km/h
- Thu 19 Very low -8° · 59 % · 62 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. Put this widget on your website
Smoke today in Dongshan District: hourly forecast
The municipality and its fires
Since 2016
- 13,329
- hectares burned
- 3.1 %
- of its area
- 9
- fires
- 4,269
- km²
How many times has Dongshan District burned?
Dongshan District has burned 9 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tangyuan County fire, 23 October 2026, with 2,149 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,329 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 9,166 hectares, 2.1 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.
- 9
- fires
- 5
- years with fire
- 13,329
- cumulative ha
- 9,166
- 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.
Fires that entered Dongshan District
- 2,149 ha Tangyuan County fire, 23 October 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 8,942 ha in total · 9 days
- 1,086 ha Dongshan District fire, 23 October 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 9 days
- 10,949 ha Dongshan District fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 9,743 ha in total · 12 days
- 1,489 ha Dongshan District fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,499 ha in total · 4 days
- 1,194 ha Dongshan District fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,207 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,769 ha Dongshan District fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,784 ha in total · 7 days
- 985 ha Dongshan District fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,201 ha in total · 4 days
- 1,181 ha Dongshan District fire, April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,270 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,598 ha Dongshan District fire, April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,611 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,879 ha Dongshan District fire, October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,895 ha in total · 5 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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