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Solar flares in January 2001
C-class174
M-class10
X-class0
LargestM7.72001-01-20
Sunspot number142.7NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2000 | 118 | 9 | 0 | M3.9 |
| January 2001 | 174 | 10 | 0 | M7.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-01-20 | 21:06 | 21:20 | 26 | M7.7 | S07E46 | 9313 |
| 2001-01-10 | 10:12 | 10:16 | 6 | M3.5 | N19E06 | 9302 |
| 2001-01-09 | 06:45 | 06:50 | 7 | M1.8 | N10E50 | 9306 |
| 2001-01-28 | 15:40 | 16:00 | 44 | M1.5 | S04W59 | 9313 |
| 2001-01-20 | 18:33 | 18:47 | 26 | M1.2 | S07E40 | 9313 |
| 2001-01-21 | 23:08 | 23:12 | 11 | M1.1 | N05W32 | 9311 |
| 2001-01-03 | 23:42 | 23:55 | 30 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2001-01-24 | 14:37 | 14:47 | 13 | M1.0 | N06W77 | 9311 |
| 2001-01-26 | 05:53 | 06:07 | 20 | M1.0 | N10E63 | 9325 |
| 2001-01-15 | 15:56 | 16:03 | 11 | C9.4 | N12W37 | 9306 |
| 2001-01-24 | 00:38 | 00:49 | 22 | C9.2 | N06W65 | 9311 |
| 2001-01-14 | 02:46 | 02:51 | 8 | C8.1 | N10W17 | 9306 |
| 2001-01-02 | 07:44 | 08:11 | 68 | C7.5 | – | – |
| 2001-01-25 | 07:07 | 07:13 | 11 | C7.4 | – | – |
| 2001-01-02 | 17:01 | 18:07 | 135 | C6.9 | – | – |
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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184 flares of class C or larger in January 2001; by M/X count it ranks 239 of 565 months.