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Wildfires in Yilan County 依兰县

Yilan County, China, has had 48 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 174,121 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 38% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 13).

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 Moderate 11° · 25 % · 57 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Moderate 9° · 31 % · 49 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Low 3° · 31 % · 63 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Low 1° · 26 % · 52 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Low 6° · 48 % · 37 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Moderate 6° · 29 % · 63 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Low 3° · 38 % · 66 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Low 0° · 50 % · 31 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

174,121
hectares burned
38 %
of its area
48
fires
4,636
km²

How many times has Yilan County burned?

Yilan County has burned 48 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Yilan County fire, 15 April 2026, with 1,041 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 6× 17
  3.   18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 11× 21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 14× 25
  11. 13× 26
48
fires
7
years with fire
174,121
cumulative ha
15 Apr 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 Yilan County

  1. 1,041 ha Yilan County fire, 15 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,018 ha Yilan County fire, 14 April 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,026 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 1,047 ha Yilan County fire, 1 April 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,051 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 2,756 ha Yilan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,764 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 1,576 ha Yilan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,583 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 2,005 ha Yilan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,008 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 1,659 ha Yilan County fire, 31 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,659 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,216 ha Yilan County fire, 28 March 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,216 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 32,072 ha Yilan County fire, 27 March 2026 where it started 6.9% of the municipality · 31,966 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 27 ha Yilan County fire, 24 March 2026 where it started 0.0% of the municipality · 3,308 ha in total · 9 days
  11. 1,456 ha Yilan County fire, 23 March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,595 ha in total · 6 days
  12. 37 ha Huanan County fire, 14 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 5,113 ha in total · 13 days
  13. 43,756 ha Linkou County fire, 13 March 2026 9.4% of the municipality · 52,010 ha in total · 21 days
  14. 1,964 ha Yilan County fire, 22 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,966 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 4,679 ha Yilan County fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,693 ha in total · 5 days
  16. 2,028 ha Yilan County fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,030 ha in total · 6 days
  17. 4,900 ha Yilan County fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 4,878 ha in total · 5 days
  18. 40 ha Boli County fire, 25 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,565 ha in total · 2 days
  19. 666 ha Boli County fire, 25 October 2025 0.1% of the municipality · 1,833 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 771 ha Jiao District fire, 25 October 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,538 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 1,094 ha Yilan County fire, 23 October 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,089 ha in total · 6 days
  22. 3,037 ha Yilan County fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,036 ha in total · 5 days
  23. 6,538 ha Yilan County fire, 22 October 2025 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 22,367 ha in total · 13 days
  24. 34 ha Huanan County fire, 22 October 2025 0.0% of the municipality · 1,041 ha in total · 4 days
  25. 1,127 ha Yilan County fire, 16 April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,122 ha in total · 2 days
  26. 999 ha Yilan County fire, 9 April 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,001 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 4,221 ha Yilan County fire, 7 April 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 4,236 ha in total · 6 days
  28. 1,131 ha Yilan County fire, April 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,135 ha in total · 2 days
  29. 3 ha Huanan County fire, 9 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,091 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 147 ha Linkou County fire, 2 April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,057 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 1,278 ha Yilan County fire, 21 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,280 ha in total · 2 days
  32. 1,931 ha Yilan County fire, 20 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,935 ha in total · 3 days
  33. 4,402 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 4,419 ha in total · 4 days
  34. 2,988 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,997 ha in total · 4 days
  35. 6,331 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 6,340 ha in total · 4 days
  36. 2,541 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,540 ha in total · 4 days
  37. 8,331 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 8,301 ha in total · 4 days
  38. 1,302 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,305 ha in total · 4 days
  39. 1,046 ha Yilan County fire, 19 April 2021 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,047 ha in total · 4 days
  40. 1,380 ha Yilan County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,388 ha in total · 5 days
  41. 2,518 ha Yilan County fire, 17 April 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,528 ha in total · 5 days
  42. 1,887 ha Yilan County fire, February 2019 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,892 ha in total · 3 days
  43. 1,502 ha Yilan County fire, November 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,497 ha in total · 4 days
  44. 1,174 ha Yilan County fire, 31 October 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 1,271 ha in total · 2 days
  45. 1,652 ha Yilan County fire, 31 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,651 ha in total · 6 days
  46. 1,783 ha Yilan County fire, 28 October 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,786 ha in total · 5 days
  47. 5,465 ha Yilan County fire, 28 October 2017 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 5,473 ha in total · 7 days
  48. 1,568 ha Yilan County fire, March 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 1,564 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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