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Wildfires in Taigu County

Taigu County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 1,969 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.9% 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. Sun 25 Very low 15° · 72 % · 14 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 24 % · 38 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 12° · 25 % · 20 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 15° · 26 % · 30 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Moderate 15° · 20 % · 41 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 17° · 20 % · 32 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 35 % · 32 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 13° · 23 % · 44 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

1,969
hectares burned
1.9 %
of its area
2
fires
1,054
km²

How many times has Taigu County burned?

Taigu County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2020. The most recent: Taigu County fire, March 2020, with 1,586 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
1,969
cumulative ha
18 Mar 2020
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 Taigu County

  1. 1,586 ha Taigu County fire, March 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 1,689 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 383 ha Yushe County fire, March 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 3,906 ha in total · 7 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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