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Wildfires in Bihoro 美幌町

Bihoro, Japan, has had 6 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2017: 1,358 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.1% 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
  1. Tue 27 Very low 13° · 33 % · 40 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 6° · 42 % · 67 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 8° · 37 % · 41 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 51 % · 44 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 54 % · 44 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 6° · 40 % · 44 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 7° · 46 % · 47 km/h
  8. Tue 3 Very low 5° · 75 % · 35 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

1,358
hectares burned
3.1 %
of its area
6
fires
439
km²

How many times has Bihoro burned?

Bihoro has burned 6 times since 2016, in 6 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Bihoro fire, September 2026, with 220 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,358 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,204 hectares, 2.7 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
6
fires
6
years with fire
1,358
cumulative ha
1,204
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 Bihoro

  1. 220 ha Bihoro fire, September 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 3 days
  2. 267 ha Bihoro fire, October 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 267 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 222 ha Bihoro fire, October 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 222 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 211 ha Bihoro fire, October 2019 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 211 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 227 ha Bihoro fire, September 2018 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 227 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 211 ha Bihoro fire, October 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 211 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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