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Wildfire near Jiamusi, China

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Map: Wildfire near Jiamusi, China

GDACS has tracked this wildfire near Jiamusi, China since October 22, 2026, 4 days as of its latest update on October 26. It carries a GREEN alert: limited humanitarian impact expected. Satellites put the burned area at 53,058 acres (21,472 hectares, 215 km²), roughly 3.6 times the size of Manhattan, or about 40,196 American football fields.

TypeWildfire
GDACS alertGreen
CountryChina
SinceOct 22, 2026
Tracked for4 days
Burned area21,472 ha · 53,058 acres
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How the size is measured

GDACS estimates burned areas from satellite data, so the figures cover the whole fire complex and may include several fires burning close together.

Seen from space

Satellite picture, When tracking began · October 22, 2026
When tracking began · October 22, 2026
Satellite picture, Latest · October 25, 2026
Latest · October 25, 2026

True color from the VIIRS instrument on the NOAA-20 satellite. Red dots are fires detected by their heat; smoke shows as gray-brown haze. The ring marks where the event was reported. Pictures: NASA Worldview (GIBS) from the daily satellite passes; clouds can hide the ground on some days.

GDACS report. Source: GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System of the United Nations and the European Commission (CC BY 4.0).

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