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Wildfires in Aso

Aso, Japan: 41 fires since 2016 burned 38,057 hectares inside its boundaries, 1.0 times its area, because some ground burned more than once. 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
  1. Thu 22 Very low 19° · 48 % · 36 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 17° · 82 % · 44 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 83 % · 42 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 88 % · 39 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 23° · 86 % · 57 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 21° · 60 % · 46 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 44 % · 47 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 18° · 50 % · 35 km/h
  9. Fri 30 Very low 19° · 85 % · 39 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

38,057
hectares burned
1.0×
times its area (some ground burned more than once)
41
fires
375
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Aso

  1. 246 ha Aso fire, 21 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 245 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 13 ha Minami Oguni fire, 15 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 209 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 435 ha Aso fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 434 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,044 ha Aso fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 2,009 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 596 ha Aso fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 594 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 2,756 ha Aso fire, 8 March 2026 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 1,307 ha Aso fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 3.5% of the municipality · 1,393 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 4,688 ha Aso fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 12% of the municipality · 5,917 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 462 ha Aso fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 460 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 240 ha Aso fire, 19 March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 240 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 233 ha Aso fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 232 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 387 ha Aso fire, 5 March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 386 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 78 ha Minami Oguni fire, 5 March 2023 0.2% of the municipality · 265 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 13 ha Minami Oguni fire, 5 March 2023 0.0% of the municipality · 541 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 747 ha Aso fire, 6 March 2022 where it started 2.0% of the municipality · 745 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 2,716 ha Aso fire, 6 March 2022 where it started 7.2% of the municipality · 2,922 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 2,981 ha Aso fire, 6 March 2022 where it started 7.9% of the municipality · 4,010 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 438 ha Aso fire, April 2021 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 437 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 418 ha Aso fire, March 2021 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 417 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 293 ha Aso fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 292 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 338 ha Aso fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 354 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 437 ha Aso fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 435 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 4,571 ha Aso fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 12% of the municipality · 5,178 ha in total · 1 day
  24. 5 ha Minami Oguni fire, 15 March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 226 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 1,883 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 1,880 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 230 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 229 ha in total · 1 day
  27. 156 ha Minami Oguni fire, March 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 482 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 420 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 561 ha in total · 1 day
  29. 556 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 554 ha in total · 1 day
  30. 402 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 401 ha in total · 1 day
  31. 343 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 342 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 70 ha Ubuyama fire, 25 March 2018 0.2% of the municipality · 328 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 217 ha Aso fire, 11 March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 234 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 235 ha Aso fire, 11 March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 235 ha in total · 1 day
  35. 345 ha Aso fire, 11 March 2018 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 344 ha in total · 1 day
  36. 1,104 ha Aso fire, 11 March 2018 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 1,105 ha in total · 1 day
  37. 5,137 ha Aso fire, 11 March 2018 where it started 14% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 1 day
  38. 373 ha Aso fire, March 2017 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 372 ha in total · 1 day
  39. 410 ha Aso fire, March 2016 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 408 ha in total · 1 day
  40. 451 ha Aso fire, 28 February 2016 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 466 ha in total · 1 day
  41. 285 ha Aso fire, 28 February 2016 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 284 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).