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Wildfires in Qinyuan County 沁源县

Qinyuan County, China, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 26,070 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 5).

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. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 26 % · 35 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 11° · 17 % · 21 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Low 14° · 19 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Low 16° · 24 % · 33 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 11° · 52 % · 24 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 13° · 19 % · 34 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 10° · 33 % · 36 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 7° · 66 % · 39 km/h
  9. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 91 % · 22 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

26,070
hectares burned
10 %
of its area
7
fires
2,577
km²

How many times has Qinyuan County burned?

Qinyuan County has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2019, 2020 and 2025. The most recent: Qinyuan County fire, June 2025, with 10,413 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 3× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
3
years with fire
26,070
cumulative ha
8 Jun 2025
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 Qinyuan County

  1. 10,413 ha Qinyuan County fire, June 2025 where it started 4.0% of the municipality · 11,980 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 1,504 ha Qinyuan County fire, May 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 1,506 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 255 ha Qinyuan County fire, April 2025 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,803 ha in total · 4 days
  4. 1,835 ha Qinyuan County fire, June 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,834 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 2,885 ha Qinyuan County fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 2,874 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 4,309 ha Qinyuan County fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 4,297 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 4,868 ha Qinyuan County fire, 29 March 2019 where it started 1.9% of the municipality · 4,850 ha in total · 8 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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