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Wildfires in Yongxing County 永兴县

Yongxing County, China, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 7,475 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.8% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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 8 Very low 18° · 84 % · 34 km/h
  2. Mon 9 Very low 16° · 49 % · 44 km/h
  3. Tue 10 Very low 16° · 36 % · 30 km/h
  4. Wed 11 Very low 20° · 31 % · 19 km/h
  5. Thu 12 Very low 21° · 43 % · 18 km/h
  6. Fri 13 Very low 19° · 64 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sat 14 Very low 25° · 55 % · 25 km/h
  8. Sun 15 Very low 26° · 57 % · 20 km/h
  9. Mon 16 Very low 24° · 69 % · 27 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 Yongxing County: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

7,475
hectares burned
3.8 %
of its area
2
fires
1,963
km²

How many times has Yongxing County burned?

Yongxing County has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2022. The most recent: Yongxing County fire, 18 October 2022, with 1,605 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
7,475
cumulative ha
18 Oct 2022
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 Yongxing County

  1. 1,605 ha Yongxing County fire, 18 October 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 1,598 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 5,870 ha Yongxing County fire, 15 October 2022 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 5,845 ha in total · 9 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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