Wildfires in Gannan County 甘南县
Gannan County, China, has had 54 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 135,615 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 28% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 12).
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- Fri 30 Moderate 2° · 36 % · 67 km/h
- Sat 31 Moderate -2° · 16 % · 37 km/h
- Sun 1 Low -2° · 29 % · 21 km/h
- Mon 2 Low 0° · 41 % · 24 km/h
- Tue 3 Low -1° · 39 % · 35 km/h
- Wed 4 Very low -2° · 53 % · 37 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low -5° · 63 % · 39 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low -6° · 49 % · 34 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low -5° · 43 % · 34 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
- 135,615
- hectares burned
- 28 %
- of its area
- 54
- fires
- 4,787
- km²
How many times has Gannan County burned?
Gannan County has burned 54 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Gannan County fire, 22 October 2026, with 2,420 hectares inside the municipality.
- 54
- fires
- 7
- years with fire
- 135,615
- cumulative ha
- 22 Oct 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.
Fires that entered Gannan County
- 2,420 ha Gannan County fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 10 days
- 3,566 ha Gannan County fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,570 ha in total · 8 days
- 3,046 ha Gannan County fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,041 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,258 ha Gannan County fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 3 days
- 3,554 ha Gannan County fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,536 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,184 ha Gannan County fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 2 days
- 971 ha Gannan County fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 2 days
- 8,021 ha Gannan County fire, 4 April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,119 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,408 ha Gannan County fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,843 ha in total · 4 days
- 4,060 ha Gannan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,064 ha in total · 10 days
- 1,244 ha Gannan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 1 day
- 7,851 ha Gannan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,864 ha in total · 8 days
- 8,904 ha Gannan County fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 8,958 ha in total · 6 days
- 3,816 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 8 days
- 7,491 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,612 ha in total · 12 days
- 6,194 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,176 ha in total · 8 days
- 1,851 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 8 days
- 2,844 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 6 days
- 17 ha Meilisi Daur District fire, 20 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 16 days
- 9,171 ha Longjiang County fire, 18 March 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 22,693 ha in total · 16 days
- 1,813 ha Gannan County fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,446 ha Gannan County fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,458 ha in total · 14 days
- 2,463 ha Gannan County fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,287 ha Gannan County fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,291 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,957 ha Gannan County fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,973 ha in total · 7 days
- 3,179 ha Gannan County fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 13 days
- 1,635 ha Gannan County fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,627 ha in total · 7 days
- 1,845 ha Gannan County fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,833 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,460 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,459 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,496 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,490 ha in total · 4 days
- 1,215 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,015 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,599 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,599 ha in total · 1 day
- 1,167 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,045 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 1 day
- 4,130 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,153 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,046 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 3 days
- 9,998 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 10,005 ha in total · 3 days
- 2,692 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,534 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,385 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,382 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,796 ha Gannan County fire, 15 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,785 ha in total · 3 days
- 5 ha Longjiang County fire, 13 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 3 days
- 95 ha Longjiang County fire, 13 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,417 ha in total · 3 days
- 1,916 ha Gannan County fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 4 days
- 121 ha Zhalantun fire, 12 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 2 days
- 78 ha Zhalantun fire, 11 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 3 days
- 134 ha Zhalantun fire, 10 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 3 days
- 21 ha Meilisi Daur District fire, 4 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 4 days
- 1,111 ha Gannan County fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 5 days
- 1,098 ha Gannan County fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
- 1,899 ha Gannan County fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,903 ha in total · 2 days
- 9 ha Arun Banner fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,992 ha in total · 7 days
- 58 ha Arun Banner fire, March 2016 0.0% of the municipality · 1,259 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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