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Solar flares in February 2016
C-class102
M-class4
X-class0
LargestM1.82016-02-13
Sunspot number56.1NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2015 | 75 | 2 | 0 | M2.4 |
| February 2016 | 102 | 4 | 0 | M1.8 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-13 | 15:16 | 15:24 | 10 | M1.8 | N13W25 | 12497 |
| 2016-02-15 | 10:41 | 11:00 | 25 | M1.2 | S20W48 | 12500 |
| 2016-02-12 | 10:36 | 10:47 | 17 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2016-02-14 | 19:18 | 19:26 | 11 | M1.0 | N15W47 | 12497 |
| 2016-02-17 | 04:54 | 05:01 | 13 | C9.4 | – | – |
| 2016-02-11 | 20:18 | 21:03 | 70 | C8.9 | N11W07 | 12497 |
| 2016-02-17 | 18:06 | 18:13 | 13 | C7.4 | N16W73 | 12497 |
| 2016-02-18 | 01:49 | 01:58 | 15 | C7.2 | – | – |
| 2016-02-14 | 09:52 | 10:25 | 38 | C6.9 | – | – |
| 2016-02-12 | 17:10 | 17:21 | 17 | C6.8 | N08W11 | 12496 |
| 2016-02-04 | 18:15 | 18:22 | 13 | C5.2 | S12E14 | 12494 |
| 2016-02-15 | 08:26 | 08:41 | 20 | C5.2 | N13W54 | 12497 |
| 2016-02-17 | 20:05 | 20:22 | 45 | C4.6 | – | – |
| 2016-02-15 | 17:46 | 17:52 | 14 | C4.2 | N14W58 | 12497 |
| 2016-02-15 | 21:14 | 21:40 | 35 | C4.1 | N16W57 | 12497 |
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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106 flares of class C or larger in February 2016; by M/X count it ranks 338 of 565 months.