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Solar flares in February 2002
C-class189
M-class18
X-class0
LargestM5.12002-02-20
Sunspot number194.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2001 | 61 | 1 | 0 | M2.4 |
| February 2002 | 189 | 18 | 0 | M5.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-02-20 | 05:52 | 06:12 | 24 | M5.1 | N12W72 | 9825 |
| 2002-02-21 | 23:49 | 00:10 | 38 | M4.4 | – | 9830 |
| 2002-02-20 | 09:46 | 09:59 | 18 | M4.3 | N18W83 | 9825 |
| 2002-02-20 | 02:44 | 02:51 | 12 | M4.2 | N15W58 | 9825 |
| 2002-02-21 | 11:56 | 12:26 | 40 | M3.9 | – | – |
| 2002-02-20 | 17:03 | 17:11 | 15 | M3.5 | S09W62 | – |
| 2002-02-20 | 21:00 | 21:07 | 9 | M2.4 | S18W11 | 9830 |
| 2002-02-04 | 05:42 | 06:02 | 29 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2002-02-27 | 23:56 | 00:12 | 52 | M2.2 | – | – |
| 2002-02-10 | 18:40 | 18:48 | 13 | M1.6 | S25W15 | 9811 |
| 2002-02-27 | 15:50 | 15:58 | 14 | M1.6 | S18W69 | 9839 |
| 2002-02-04 | 06:41 | 06:58 | 28 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2002-02-06 | 11:26 | 11:32 | 15 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2002-02-21 | 20:28 | 20:37 | 19 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2002-02-04 | 23:23 | 23:30 | 11 | M1.3 | S13W42 | 9802 |
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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207 flares of class C or larger in February 2002; by M/X count it ranks 170 of 565 months.