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Solar flares in February 2014
C-class189
M-class39
X-class1
LargestX4.92014-02-25
Sunspot number174.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2013 | 30 | 1 | 0 | M1.9 |
| February 2014 | 189 | 39 | 1 | X4.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-02-25 | 00:39 | 00:49 | 24 | X4.9 | S12E82 | 11990 |
| 2014-02-04 | 03:57 | 04:00 | 9 | M5.2 | S14W06 | 11967 |
| 2014-02-02 | 09:24 | 09:31 | 12 | M4.4 | S11E13 | 11967 |
| 2014-02-04 | 01:16 | 01:23 | 15 | M3.8 | N09W13 | 11968 |
| 2014-02-12 | 03:52 | 04:25 | 46 | M3.7 | S12W02 | 11974 |
| 2014-02-02 | 18:05 | 18:11 | 13 | M3.1 | – | – |
| 2014-02-01 | 07:14 | 07:23 | 22 | M3.0 | S11E23 | 11967 |
| 2014-02-20 | 07:26 | 07:56 | 59 | M3.0 | S11E43 | 11982 |
| 2014-02-02 | 06:24 | 06:34 | 13 | M2.6 | N12E18 | 11968 |
| 2014-02-12 | 06:54 | 06:58 | 10 | M2.3 | S12W02 | 11974 |
| 2014-02-14 | 02:40 | 02:57 | 30 | M2.3 | S12W25 | 11974 |
| 2014-02-02 | 07:17 | 08:20 | 72 | M2.2 | S10E14 | 11967 |
| 2014-02-12 | 15:41 | 15:51 | 34 | M2.1 | – | – |
| 2014-02-07 | 04:47 | 04:56 | 17 | M2.0 | S15W50 | 11967 |
| 2014-02-07 | 10:25 | 10:29 | 6 | M1.9 | N09W53 | 11968 |
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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229 flares of class C or larger in February 2014; by M/X count it ranks 68 of 565 months.