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Solar flares in October 2022
C-class180
M-class19
X-class1
LargestX1.02022-10-02
Sunspot number85.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2021 | 73 | 7 | 0 | M9.9 |
| October 2022 | 180 | 19 | 1 | X1.0 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-02 | 19:53 | 20:25 | 40 | X1.0 | – | – |
| 2022-10-02 | 02:08 | 02:21 | 17 | M8.7 | – | – |
| 2022-10-01 | 19:58 | 20:10 | 17 | M5.8 | – | – |
| 2022-10-03 | 09:38 | 10:11 | 48 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 2022-10-11 | 08:36 | 08:42 | 9 | M3.9 | – | – |
| 2022-10-03 | 02:19 | 02:33 | 42 | M2.6 | – | – |
| 2022-10-10 | 16:05 | 16:28 | 41 | M2.4 | – | – |
| 2022-10-03 | 21:13 | 21:22 | 17 | M1.7 | – | – |
| 2022-10-03 | 15:20 | 15:30 | 19 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2022-10-04 | 12:48 | 13:15 | 62 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 2022-10-03 | 11:03 | 11:11 | 15 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2022-10-11 | 10:46 | 10:52 | 10 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2022-10-12 | 23:54 | 00:19 | 42 | M1.5 | – | – |
| 2022-10-14 | 09:20 | 09:44 | – | M1.3 | – | – |
| 2022-10-14 | 09:51 | 09:55 | 6 | M1.3 | – | – |
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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200 flares of class C or larger in October 2022; by M/X count it ranks 163 of 565 months.