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Wildfires in Eryuan County 洱源县

Eryuan County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 2,370 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 6).

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. Thu 29 Low 23° · 35 % · 31 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Low 23° · 40 % · 30 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 22° · 41 % · 33 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Moderate 23° · 36 % · 32 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Moderate 23° · 34 % · 31 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 22° · 38 % · 35 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 22° · 36 % · 31 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Moderate 23° · 37 % · 32 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

2,370
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
2
fires
2,522
km²

How many times has Eryuan County burned?

Eryuan County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2019 and 2026. The most recent: Eryuan County fire, January 2026, with 1,026 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 2,370 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,919 hectares, 0.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
2
fires
2
years with fire
2,370
cumulative ha
1,919
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 Eryuan County

  1. 1,026 ha Eryuan County fire, January 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,024 ha in total · 5 days
  2. 1,345 ha Eryuan County fire, January 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,342 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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