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🇨🇳 China: wildfires in September 2026

Unit: archived detection events, grouped by first-detection day and a roughly 11 km cell. One physical fire can span multiple records; hotspots can also be agricultural, industrial or urban. These counts are not a census of confirmed wildfires. The archive starts on August 3, 2026; the current month is incomplete.

China, September 2026: 435 detection events archived over the covered period using kanari thresholds. Updated 18 October at 06:46.

Busiest day: 2 September, with 62 ignitions detected. -62% compared with August 2026.

435
archived events
0
still active
0
with verified witnesses
0
with aircraft observed
2854
peak power (MW)
"In September 2026, kanari archived 435 detection events in China, with 0 still active at the last update. This is not a count of distinct confirmed physical wildfires. Peak observed fire radiative power: 2854 MW."
Source: kanari.io, NASA FIRMS, GOES and Meteosat MTG satellites plus AI-verified witness reports. Freely citable (CC BY 4.0).

Fire ignitions per day

012026-09-01: 21022026-09-02: 62032026-09-03: 52042026-09-04: 23052026-09-05: 10062026-09-06: 3072026-09-07: 11082026-09-08: 26092026-09-09: 27102026-09-10: 11112026-09-11: 6122026-09-12: 2132026-09-13: 20142026-09-14: 8152026-09-15: 12162026-09-16: 20172026-09-17: 22182026-09-18: 16192026-09-19: 3202026-09-20: 7212026-09-21: 10222026-09-22: 11232026-09-23: 7242026-09-24: 4252026-09-25: 4262026-09-26: 4272026-09-27: 6282026-09-28: 11292026-09-29: 12302026-09-30: 4

Most powerful fires of the month

PlaceFirst detection (UTC)DetectionsMW
Qarek3 Sept, 11:2152854
Qabqa2 Sept, 01:1011918
Qabqa2 Sept, 01:1011893
Yuepuhu2 Sept, 11:3121882
Yuepuhu3 Sept, 11:2121842
Delingha4 Sept, 01:40111761
Mekit3 Sept, 11:2121747
Kokdala4 Sept, 02:4021689
Delingha16 Sept, 01:4011625
Delingha16 Sept, 01:4021556

Cite these figures

kanari (2026). Archived detection events, China, September 2026: 435 records. https://kanari.io — accessed 2026-10-18.

Methodology: only significant fires are archived (corroborated by witnesses, or above detection and power thresholds); totals are not comparable to exhaustive official tallies. Full methodology and licence.

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