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Wildfires in Gotenba

Gotenba, Japan, has had 23 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,963 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 51% 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. Fri 23 Very low 17° · 64 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sat 24 Very low 18° · 84 % · 12 km/h
  3. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 91 % · 24 km/h
  4. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 92 % · 14 km/h
  5. Tue 27 Very low 20° · 82 % · 21 km/h
  6. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 88 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 29 Very low 16° · 62 % · 23 km/h
  8. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 61 % · 21 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

9,963
hectares burned
51 %
of its area
23
fires
195
km²

Hectares per year

1617181920212223242526

Fires that entered Gotenba

  1. 433 ha Susono fire, February 2026 2.2% of the municipality · 1,099 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,418 ha Gotenba fire, February 2026 where it started 7.3% of the municipality · 1,487 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 505 ha Gotenba fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 504 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 348 ha Gotenba fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 347 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 492 ha Gotenba fire, February 2024 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 491 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 220 ha Gotenba fire, January 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 348 ha Gotenba fire, February 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 347 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 362 ha Gotenba fire, January 2023 where it started 1.8% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 714 ha Gotenba fire, February 2022 where it started 3.6% of the municipality · 712 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 321 ha Gotenba fire, January 2022 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 320 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 671 ha Gotenba fire, April 2021 where it started 3.4% of the municipality · 810 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 303 ha Gotenba fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 302 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 439 ha Gotenba fire, 8 February 2020 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 617 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 215 ha Gotenba fire, 16 February 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 215 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 71 ha Susono fire, February 2019 0.4% of the municipality · 456 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 611 ha Gotenba fire, 16 February 2019 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 612 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 206 ha Gotenba fire, 16 February 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 331 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 320 ha Gotenba fire, 13 January 2018 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 319 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 224 ha Gotenba fire, 13 January 2018 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 224 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 176 ha Gotenba fire, February 2017 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 317 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 802 ha Gotenba fire, March 2016 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 819 ha in total · 1 day
  22. 447 ha Gotenba fire, February 2016 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 455 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 316 ha Gotenba fire, January 2016 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 315 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).