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Solar flares in August 2002
C-class285
M-class43
X-class4
LargestX3.12002-08-24
Sunspot number191.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2001 | 274 | 22 | 1 | X5.3 |
| August 2002 | 285 | 43 | 4 | X3.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-08-24 | 00:49 | 01:12 | 42 | X3.1 | S02W81 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-30 | 12:47 | 13:29 | 48 | X1.5 | N15E74 | 10095 |
| 2002-08-03 | 18:59 | 19:07 | 12 | X1.0 | S16W76 | 10039 |
| 2002-08-21 | 05:28 | 05:34 | 8 | X1.0 | S12W51 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-04 | 08:58 | 09:55 | 95 | M6.6 | – | – |
| 2002-08-22 | 01:47 | 01:57 | 18 | M5.4 | S07W62 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-16 | 11:32 | 12:32 | 95 | M5.2 | S14E20 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-20 | 01:33 | 01:40 | 10 | M5.0 | S11W35 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-28 | 18:52 | 18:59 | 14 | M4.6 | S03E23 | – |
| 2002-08-17 | 20:39 | 20:51 | 18 | M3.4 | S06W05 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-20 | 08:22 | 08:26 | 8 | M3.4 | S10W38 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-29 | 12:42 | 12:52 | 14 | M3.2 | S18E73 | 10095 |
| 2002-08-19 | 20:56 | 21:02 | 10 | M3.1 | S11W33 | 10069 |
| 2002-08-16 | 05:46 | 06:11 | 45 | M2.4 | N07W83 | 10061 |
| 2002-08-14 | 01:47 | 02:12 | 59 | M2.3 | N09W54 | 10061 |
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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332 flares of class C or larger in August 2002; by M/X count it ranks 48 of 565 months.