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Solar flares in February 2012
C-class29
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM1.02012-02-06
Sunspot number48.5NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2011 | 111 | 13 | 1 | X2.2 |
| February 2012 | 29 | 1 | 0 | M1.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-02-06 | 19:31 | 20:00 | 46 | M1.0 | N19W60 | 11410 |
| 2012-02-11 | 09:55 | 10:04 | 16 | C7.9 | – | – |
| 2012-02-11 | 18:47 | 18:54 | 19 | C7.7 | – | – |
| 2012-02-07 | 20:18 | 22:19 | 183 | C7.3 | – | – |
| 2012-02-07 | 16:11 | 17:34 | 91 | C6.8 | N17W72 | 11410 |
| 2012-02-11 | 19:08 | 19:12 | 12 | C5.2 | – | – |
| 2012-02-07 | 10:56 | 11:03 | 15 | C5.1 | – | – |
| 2012-02-20 | 04:41 | 05:09 | 54 | C4.1 | N17E47 | 11421 |
| 2012-02-12 | 14:37 | 14:43 | 9 | C3.9 | – | – |
| 2012-02-07 | 01:15 | 01:23 | 15 | C3.5 | N20W61 | 11410 |
| 2012-02-08 | 21:48 | 22:17 | 40 | C2.9 | N12W59 | 11415 |
| 2012-02-11 | 23:26 | 23:33 | 10 | C2.8 | – | – |
| 2012-02-11 | 15:55 | 16:05 | 14 | C2.7 | – | – |
| 2012-02-11 | 20:38 | 20:44 | 12 | C2.7 | – | – |
| 2012-02-26 | 21:35 | 21:41 | 14 | C2.3 | N17W45 | 11421 |
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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30 flares of class C or larger in February 2012; by M/X count it ranks 436 of 565 months.