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Wildfires in Ninglang Yi Autonomous County 宁蒗彝族自治县

Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, China, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 5,663 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

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 13 Very low 13° · 26 % · 26 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 15° · 35 % · 36 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 14° · 39 % · 37 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Low 16° · 30 % · 45 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Low 14° · 40 % · 44 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Low 14° · 41 % · 44 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Low 14° · 33 % · 42 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Low 15° · 34 % · 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ninglang Yi Autonomous County: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

5,663
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
6
fires
5,963
km²

How many times has Ninglang Yi Autonomous County burned?

Ninglang Yi Autonomous County has burned 6 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2020, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Ninglang Yi Autonomous County fire, 26 January 2026, with 1,943 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
6
fires
3
years with fire
5,663
cumulative ha
26 Jan 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 Ninglang Yi Autonomous County

  1. 1,943 ha Ninglang Yi Autonomous County fire, 26 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,938 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 1,372 ha Ninglang Yi Autonomous County fire, 16 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,487 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 121 ha Yanbian County fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 153 ha Muli Tibetan Autonomous County fire, 26 December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 29,922 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 87 ha Yanyuan County fire, 7 December 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 1,987 ha Ninglang Yi Autonomous County fire, March 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,985 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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