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Wildfires in Akkeshi 厚岸町

Akkeshi, Japan, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 772 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.1% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

Only fires of 200 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 28 Very low 8° · 32 % · 70 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 39 % · 44 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 16° · 59 % · 44 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 67 % · 32 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 7° · 35 % · 61 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 10° · 43 % · 34 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 48 % · 34 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 40 % · 45 km/h
  9. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 62 % · 38 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

772
hectares burned
1.1 %
of its area
3
fires
711
km²

How many times has Akkeshi burned?

Akkeshi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Akkeshi fire, May 2026, with 331 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 772 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 466 hectares, 0.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
772
cumulative ha
466
distinct ha

Fires larger than 200 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Japan →

Fires that entered Akkeshi

  1. 331 ha Akkeshi fire, May 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 330 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 205 ha Akkeshi fire, May 2021 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 205 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 236 ha Akkeshi fire, May 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 235 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/OpenStreetMap, Wambacher (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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