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Solar flares in February 2000
C-class171
M-class14
X-class1
LargestX1.22000-02-05
Sunspot number161.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | 107 | 6 | 0 | M6.6 |
| February 2000 | 171 | 14 | 1 | X1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-02-05 | 19:17 | 19:28 | 14 | X1.2 | N26E52 | 8858 |
| 2000-02-04 | 09:11 | 09:19 | 17 | M3.0 | N25E71 | 8858 |
| 2000-02-17 | 18:41 | 18:52 | 24 | M2.5 | S25W16 | 8869 |
| 2000-02-20 | 22:00 | 22:07 | 13 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2000-02-21 | 08:26 | 08:36 | 15 | M1.8 | – | – |
| 2000-02-12 | 03:51 | 04:10 | 40 | M1.7 | N26W23 | 8858 |
| 2000-02-08 | 08:42 | 09:00 | 36 | M1.3 | N25E26 | 8858 |
| 2000-02-17 | 20:17 | 20:35 | 50 | M1.3 | S29E07 | 8872 |
| 2000-02-19 | 15:39 | 15:54 | 31 | M1.3 | S19W42 | 8869 |
| 2000-02-21 | 23:13 | 23:19 | 13 | M1.2 | S19W78 | 8869 |
| 2000-02-22 | 11:23 | 11:33 | 17 | M1.2 | S24W79 | 8869 |
| 2000-02-22 | 08:42 | 08:56 | 22 | M1.1 | S20W80 | 8869 |
| 2000-02-22 | 19:54 | 21:47 | 151 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2000-02-24 | 01:03 | 01:11 | 14 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 2000-02-26 | 23:33 | 23:52 | 90 | M1.0 | N29E50 | 8889 |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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186 flares of class C or larger in February 2000; by M/X count it ranks 186 of 565 months.