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Wildfires in Yanyuan County 盐源县

Yanyuan County, China, has had 35 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 89,996 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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 7 Moderate 16° · 28 % · 51 km/h
  2. Sun 8 Low 15° · 29 % · 36 km/h
  3. Mon 9 Very low 5° · 86 % · 22 km/h
  4. Tue 10 Very low 7° · 66 % · 34 km/h
  5. Wed 11 Very low 10° · 52 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 12 Very low 11° · 52 % · 38 km/h
  7. Fri 13 Very low 13° · 27 % · 44 km/h
  8. Sat 14 Very low 14° · 39 % · 45 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 Yanyuan County: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

89,996
hectares burned
11 %
of its area
35
fires
8,400
km²

How many times has Yanyuan County burned?

Yanyuan County has burned 35 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2020, 2021, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yanyuan County fire, 18 January 2026, with 1,092 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 89,996 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 85,436 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 21× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7.   22
  8. 3× 23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 6× 26
35
fires
5
years with fire
89,996
cumulative ha
85,436
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 Yanyuan County

  1. 1,092 ha Yanyuan County fire, 18 January 2026 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,088 ha in total · 13 days
  2. 1,732 ha Yanyuan County fire, 17 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,732 ha in total · 6 days
  3. 24 ha Ninglang Yi Autonomous County fire, 16 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,487 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 1,561 ha Yanyuan County fire, 13 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,554 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 2,713 ha Yanyuan County fire, 11 January 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,712 ha in total · 12 days
  6. 1,238 ha Yanyuan County fire, 9 January 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,232 ha in total · 18 days
  7. 1,233 ha Yanyuan County fire, November 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,228 ha in total · 9 days
  8. 0 ha Muli Tibetan Autonomous County fire, May 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,416 ha in total · 7 days
  9. 4,163 ha Yanyuan County fire, 31 January 2023 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 4,159 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 1,582 ha Yanyuan County fire, 28 January 2023 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,581 ha in total · 7 days
  11. 1,077 ha Yanyuan County fire, 14 December 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,076 ha in total · 3 days
  12. 1,057 ha Yanyuan County fire, 13 December 2021 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 7 days
  13. 1,233 ha Yanyuan County fire, 12 December 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,225 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 28 ha Yanbian County fire, January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 1,137 ha in total · 4 days
  15. 4,718 ha Yanyuan County fire, 28 December 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 4,684 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 1,122 ha Yanyuan County fire, 28 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,118 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 12,006 ha Muli Tibetan Autonomous County fire, 26 December 2020 1.4% of the municipality · 29,922 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 1,116 ha Yanyuan County fire, 25 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,111 ha in total · 4 days
  19. 2,862 ha Yanyuan County fire, 25 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,856 ha in total · 7 days
  20. 1,364 ha Yanyuan County fire, 25 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,356 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 5,430 ha Yanyuan County fire, 24 December 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 5,415 ha in total · 9 days
  22. 2,207 ha Yanyuan County fire, 24 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,195 ha in total · 6 days
  23. 2,900 ha Yanyuan County fire, 24 December 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,891 ha in total · 3 days
  24. 1,326 ha Yanyuan County fire, 24 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,323 ha in total · 5 days
  25. 5,915 ha Yanyuan County fire, 23 December 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 5,909 ha in total · 6 days
  26. 1,952 ha Yanyuan County fire, 23 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,946 ha in total · 5 days
  27. 1,278 ha Yanyuan County fire, 22 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,275 ha in total · 8 days
  28. 1,938 ha Yanyuan County fire, 22 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,006 ha in total · 5 days
  29. 2,509 ha Yanyuan County fire, 20 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,499 ha in total · 9 days
  30. 2,583 ha Yanyuan County fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,581 ha in total · 7 days
  31. 1,362 ha Yanyuan County fire, 17 December 2020 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,361 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 6,385 ha Yanyuan County fire, 16 December 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 6,181 ha in total · 15 days
  33. 2,515 ha Yanyuan County fire, 13 December 2020 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,511 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 1,056 ha Yanyuan County fire, 7 December 2020 where it started 0.1% of the municipality · 1,143 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 8,717 ha Yanyuan County fire, March 2020 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 16,612 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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