Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1986
C144
M20
X2
LargestX3.01986-02-04
M/X flares by month
- January 1986
- February 1986
- March 1986
- April 1986
- May 1986
- July 1986
- September 1986
- October 1986
- November 1986
- December 1986
Nearby years (M + X)
520
596
112
121
16
22
30
206
679
289
644
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-02-04 | 07:35 | 07:40 | 62 | X3.0 | S03E21 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-06 | 06:18 | 06:25 | 95 | X1.7 | S04W06 | 4711 |
| 1986-01-16 | 16:16 | 16:17 | 7 | M6.6 | S09W86 | 4710 |
| 1986-02-04 | 10:27 | 10:33 | 22 | M6.4 | S02E68 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-14 | 09:10 | 09:21 | 75 | M6.4 | N01W76 | 4713 |
| 1986-02-07 | 10:11 | 10:29 | 74 | M5.2 | S10W20 | 4711 |
| 1986-10-19 | 00:15 | 00:43 | 115 | M4.7 | N22E60 | 4750 |
| 1986-02-05 | 12:37 | 12:53 | 84 | M3.0 | S07E06 | 4711 |
| 1986-04-24 | 06:07 | 06:13 | 46 | M2.4 | N04E04 | 4726 |
| 1986-02-03 | 20:37 | 20:40 | 123 | M2.3 | S09E26 | 4711 |
| 1986-02-15 | 10:16 | 12:03 | 164 | M2.2 | – | 4713 |
| 1986-02-15 | 13:04 | 13:09 | 12 | M1.6 | – | 4713 |
| 1986-03-05 | 07:06 | 07:09 | 74 | M1.6 | – | 4717 |
| 1986-01-16 | 18:37 | 18:49 | 37 | M1.3 | S12W88 | 4710 |
| 1986-03-03 | 12:42 | 12:54 | 15 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 1986-04-24 | 03:45 | 03:47 | 43 | M1.2 | N04E06 | 4726 |
| 1986-05-04 | 09:39 | 10:07 | 60 | M1.2 | – | 4727 |
| 1986-01-15 | 06:54 | 07:10 | 106 | M1.1 | S09W67 | 4710 |
| 1986-02-11 | 03:32 | 03:38 | 68 | M1.1 | N00W30 | 4713 |
| 1986-04-24 | 00:39 | 00:42 | 41 | M1.1 | N03E07 | 4726 |
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.
About this page
166 flares of class C+ in 1986: 20 M-class and 2 X-class.