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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
  1. Fri 30 Moderate 2° · 36 % · 67 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Moderate -2° · 16 % · 37 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Low -2° · 29 % · 21 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Low 0° · 41 % · 24 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Low -1° · 39 % · 35 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low -2° · 53 % · 37 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Very low -5° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Very low -6° · 49 % · 34 km/h
  9. 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.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 19× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 22× 26
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.

Where it has burned most often in China →

Fires that entered Gannan County

  1. 2,420 ha Gannan County fire, 22 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,436 ha in total · 10 days
  2. 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. 3,046 ha Gannan County fire, 16 October 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,041 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,258 ha Gannan County fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,253 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 3,554 ha Gannan County fire, 14 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,536 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,184 ha Gannan County fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,326 ha in total · 2 days
  7. 971 ha Gannan County fire, 8 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,236 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 8,021 ha Gannan County fire, 4 April 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 8,119 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 1,408 ha Gannan County fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,843 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 4,060 ha Gannan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,064 ha in total · 10 days
  11. 1,244 ha Gannan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,248 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 7,851 ha Gannan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,864 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 8,904 ha Gannan County fire, 30 March 2026 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 8,958 ha in total · 6 days
  14. 3,816 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,813 ha in total · 8 days
  15. 7,491 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 7,612 ha in total · 12 days
  16. 6,194 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,176 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 1,851 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,863 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 2,844 ha Gannan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,823 ha in total · 6 days
  19. 17 ha Meilisi Daur District fire, 20 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,193 ha in total · 16 days
  20. 9,171 ha Longjiang County fire, 18 March 2026 1.9% of the municipality · 22,693 ha in total · 16 days
  21. 1,813 ha Gannan County fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,820 ha in total · 3 days
  22. 2,446 ha Gannan County fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,458 ha in total · 14 days
  23. 2,463 ha Gannan County fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,445 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,287 ha Gannan County fire, 3 November 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,291 ha in total · 3 days
  25. 2,957 ha Gannan County fire, 28 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,973 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 3,179 ha Gannan County fire, 24 October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,265 ha in total · 13 days
  27. 1,635 ha Gannan County fire, 20 October 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,627 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 1,845 ha Gannan County fire, October 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,833 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 1,460 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,459 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 1,496 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,490 ha in total · 4 days
  31. 1,215 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,210 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 1,015 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,014 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 1,599 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,599 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 1,167 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,176 ha in total · 2 days
  35. 1,045 ha Gannan County fire, 17 April 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,049 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 4,130 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,153 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 2,046 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,393 ha in total · 3 days
  38. 9,998 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 10,005 ha in total · 3 days
  39. 2,692 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,687 ha in total · 2 days
  40. 1,534 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,524 ha in total · 2 days
  41. 1,385 ha Gannan County fire, 16 April 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,382 ha in total · 2 days
  42. 1,796 ha Gannan County fire, 15 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,785 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 5 ha Longjiang County fire, 13 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 3,060 ha in total · 3 days
  44. 95 ha Longjiang County fire, 13 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,417 ha in total · 3 days
  45. 1,916 ha Gannan County fire, 12 April 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,253 ha in total · 4 days
  46. 121 ha Zhalantun fire, 12 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,362 ha in total · 2 days
  47. 78 ha Zhalantun fire, 11 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,054 ha in total · 3 days
  48. 134 ha Zhalantun fire, 10 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,002 ha in total · 3 days
  49. 21 ha Meilisi Daur District fire, 4 April 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,575 ha in total · 4 days
  50. 1,111 ha Gannan County fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,117 ha in total · 5 days
  51. 1,098 ha Gannan County fire, 23 March 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,100 ha in total · 2 days
  52. 1,899 ha Gannan County fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,903 ha in total · 2 days
  53. 9 ha Arun Banner fire, March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 1,992 ha in total · 7 days
  54. 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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