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Solar flares in October 2002
C-class220
M-class22
X-class1
LargestX1.22002-10-31
Sunspot number153.9NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | 228 | 32 | 4 | X1.6 |
| October 2002 | 220 | 22 | 1 | X1.2 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-10-31 | 16:47 | 16:52 | 8 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2002-10-05 | 20:42 | 21:00 | 26 | M5.9 | N14E31 | 10139 |
| 2002-10-04 | 05:34 | 05:38 | 7 | M4.0 | S19W09 | 10137 |
| 2002-10-04 | 10:54 | 11:05 | 15 | M3.5 | S20W10 | 10137 |
| 2002-10-04 | 22:32 | 22:43 | 19 | M2.7 | N13E43 | 10139 |
| 2002-10-06 | 04:46 | 04:51 | 7 | M2.4 | N12E31 | 10139 |
| 2002-10-13 | 23:42 | 00:10 | 86 | M2.2 | S13E75 | 10159 |
| 2002-10-03 | 02:15 | 02:21 | 11 | M2.1 | S19E06 | 10137 |
| 2002-10-20 | 00:32 | 00:45 | 39 | M1.8 | N27E61 | 10162 |
| 2002-10-20 | 14:21 | 14:28 | 14 | M1.8 | S19W23 | 10160 |
| 2002-10-28 | 12:00 | 12:05 | 11 | M1.7 | N23W61 | 10162 |
| 2002-10-20 | 03:31 | 03:39 | 29 | M1.5 | N26E58 | 10162 |
| 2002-10-25 | 17:23 | 17:47 | 59 | M1.5 | N28W11 | 10162 |
| 2002-10-04 | 12:43 | 12:55 | 24 | M1.2 | N08E49 | 10139 |
| 2002-10-04 | 17:04 | 17:11 | 11 | M1.2 | S21W16 | 10137 |
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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243 flares of class C or larger in October 2002; by M/X count it ranks 142 of 565 months.