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Wildfires in Yongji County 永吉县

Yongji County, China, has had 22 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2020: 45,115 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 16% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 15).

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 11 Moderate 10° · 34 % · 45 km/h
  2. Thu 12 Moderate 11° · 53 % · 50 km/h
  3. Fri 13 Low 8° · 71 % · 29 km/h
  4. Sat 14 Very low 10° · 66 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 15 Low 2° · 54 % · 32 km/h
  6. Mon 16 Low 0° · 37 % · 30 km/h
  7. Tue 17 Low 5° · 28 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 18 Very low -0° · 65 % · 38 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 Yongji County: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

45,115
hectares burned
16 %
of its area
22
fires
2,801
km²

How many times has Yongji County burned?

Yongji County has burned 22 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Jiutai District fire, 21 March 2026, with 614 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 45,115 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 32,652 hectares, 12 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5. 5× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 6× 26
22
fires
6
years with fire
45,115
cumulative ha
32,652
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 Yongji County

  1. 614 ha Jiutai District fire, 21 March 2026 0.2% of the municipality · 1,558 ha in total · 8 days
  2. 103 ha Chuanying District fire, 14 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 1,083 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 2,657 ha Yongji County fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 2,649 ha in total · 11 days
  4. 5,872 ha Yongji County fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 6,275 ha in total · 14 days
  5. 5,565 ha Yongji County fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 5,828 ha in total · 15 days
  6. 103 ha Chuanying District fire, 9 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 13,795 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 1,296 ha Yongji County fire, 19 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,293 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 1,384 ha Yongji County fire, 18 November 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,379 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 413 ha Chuanying District fire, 17 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 1,034 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 110 ha Panshi City fire, April 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 1,266 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 9,161 ha Yongji County fire, 30 March 2023 where it started 3.3% of the municipality · 9,294 ha in total · 5 days
  12. 1,148 ha Yongji County fire, 30 March 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,167 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 0 ha Shuangyang District fire, 26 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 2,712 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 4,019 ha Yongji County fire, 25 March 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 5,398 ha in total · 10 days
  15. 2,017 ha Yongji County fire, April 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 2,018 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 1,365 ha Yongji County fire, 18 April 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,361 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 1,171 ha Yongji County fire, 7 April 2021 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 1,172 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 5 ha Panshi City fire, November 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 1,472 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 1,453 ha Yongji County fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,448 ha in total · 5 days
  20. 3,903 ha Yongji County fire, 10 April 2020 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 3,925 ha in total · 5 days
  21. 1,389 ha Yongji County fire, 5 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,435 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,367 ha Yongji County fire, 5 April 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 1,396 ha in total · 2 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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