Wildfires in Ako
Ako, Japan, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2026: 1,334 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 11% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).
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- Fri 23 Very low 22° · 46 % · 26 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 25° · 83 % · 45 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 26° · 84 % · 35 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 25° · 72 % · 32 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 23° · 54 % · 41 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 18° · 46 % · 50 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 17° · 57 % · 27 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 21° · 66 % · 20 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
- 1,334
- hectares burned
- 11 %
- of its area
- 5
- fires
- 127
- km²
Hectares per year
Fires that entered Ako
- 499 ha Ako fire, 29 September 2026 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 608 ha in total · 23 days
- 213 ha Ako fire, 16 September 2026 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 256 ha in total · 8 days
- 180 ha Ako fire, 7 September 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 17 days
- 262 ha Ako fire, July 2026 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 315 ha in total · 28 days
- 179 ha Ako fire, June 2026 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 228 ha in total · 5 days
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).