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Solar flares in March 2002
C-class166
M-class15
X-class0
LargestM5.72002-03-14
Sunspot number153.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2001 | 176 | 37 | 1 | X1.7 |
| March 2002 | 166 | 15 | 0 | M5.7 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-03-14 | 01:38 | 01:50 | 24 | M5.7 | S12E23 | 9866 |
| 2002-03-17 | 19:24 | 19:31 | 10 | M4.0 | S22E16 | 9871 |
| 2002-03-30 | 12:45 | 13:01 | 29 | M3.4 | N11E33 | 9885 |
| 2002-03-09 | 18:31 | 18:56 | 68 | M2.6 | S09E79 | 9866 |
| 2002-03-10 | 22:21 | 23:25 | 128 | M2.3 | – | – |
| 2002-03-15 | 22:09 | 23:10 | 153 | M2.2 | S08W03 | 9866 |
| 2002-03-22 | 10:12 | 11:14 | 100 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2002-03-12 | 23:01 | 23:13 | 23 | M1.5 | S22E93 | 9871 |
| 2002-03-09 | 21:44 | 22:10 | 59 | M1.3 | S09E66 | 9866 |
| 2002-03-17 | 10:11 | 10:19 | 13 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2002-03-13 | 23:02 | 23:35 | 58 | M1.0 | S22E75 | 9871 |
| 2002-03-18 | 02:16 | 02:31 | 104 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2002-03-19 | 11:06 | 11:44 | 85 | M1.0 | S10W58 | 9866 |
| 2002-03-30 | 22:19 | 22:26 | 15 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2002-03-31 | 10:39 | 10:55 | 36 | M1.0 | N10E21 | 9885 |
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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181 flares of class C or larger in March 2002; by M/X count it ranks 188 of 565 months.