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Solar flares in February 2022
C-class109
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM1.42022-02-12
Sunspot number65.6NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | C3.9 |
| February 2022 | 109 | 3 | 0 | M1.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-12 | 08:25 | 08:44 | 30 | M1.4 | – | – |
| 2022-02-15 | 17:54 | 18:15 | 36 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2022-02-14 | 17:02 | 17:31 | 48 | M1.0 | – | – |
| 2022-02-12 | 17:03 | 17:08 | 8 | C9.2 | – | – |
| 2022-02-01 | 22:21 | 22:36 | – | C9.0 | – | – |
| 2022-02-01 | 07:25 | 07:36 | 18 | C8.6 | – | – |
| 2022-02-12 | 17:19 | 17:26 | 18 | C8.1 | – | – |
| 2022-02-02 | 10:14 | 10:26 | 21 | C7.8 | – | – |
| 2022-02-13 | 21:27 | 21:42 | 26 | C7.1 | – | – |
| 2022-02-12 | 16:38 | 16:59 | – | C6.9 | – | – |
| 2022-02-01 | 15:10 | 15:27 | 30 | C6.5 | – | – |
| 2022-02-13 | 01:43 | 01:47 | 6 | C6.1 | – | – |
| 2022-02-01 | 22:44 | 22:51 | 12 | C6.0 | – | – |
| 2022-02-04 | 15:38 | 15:51 | 18 | C5.8 | – | – |
| 2022-02-09 | 17:27 | 17:36 | 27 | C5.7 | – | – |
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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112 flares of class C or larger in February 2022; by M/X count it ranks 368 of 565 months.