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Wildfires in Yanggao County 阳高县

Yanggao County, China, has had 7 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 9,753 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.9% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 10).

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. Wed 28 Very low 10° · 28 % · 38 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Low 11° · 24 % · 44 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Low 11° · 25 % · 37 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Low 12° · 31 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Low 9° · 24 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Moderate 10° · 28 % · 41 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Low 12° · 23 % · 31 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Moderate 14° · 21 % · 53 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

9,753
hectares burned
5.9 %
of its area
7
fires
1,653
km²

How many times has Yanggao County burned?

Yanggao County has burned 7 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yanggao County fire, 13 October 2026, with 1,114 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,753 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,877 hectares, 4.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
7
fires
3
years with fire
9,753
cumulative ha
7,877
distinct ha

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 Yanggao County

  1. 1,114 ha Yanggao County fire, 13 October 2026 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,109 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 3,011 ha Yanggao County fire, 3 October 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 2,998 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 825 ha Datong County fire, 20 February 2026 0.5% of the municipality · 2,304 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 390 ha Yangyuan County fire, February 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 3,277 ha in total · 13 days
  5. 1,834 ha Yanggao County fire, December 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 1,827 ha in total · 5 days
  6. 1,211 ha Yanggao County fire, October 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 1,206 ha in total · 6 days
  7. 1,370 ha Yanggao County fire, October 2023 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,364 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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