Perspective:
The largest #solar flare of solar cycle 23 was on 4 November 2003 and was in excess of X28. It saturated x-ray instruments so no readingg of it's peak was obtained - albeit consensus puts it a bit over X40.
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_11_04/
The largest solar flare of solar cycle 24 was on 6 September 2017 and was recorded by NOAA as an X9.3 but which spaceweatherlive.com lists as peaking at X13.33 flare.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/r3-x93-flare-radio-blackout-6-september-1202-utc
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/archive/2017/09/06/xray.html
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