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Wildfires in Hitachi 日立市

Hitachi, Japan, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 614 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.7% 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. Sun 25 Very low 23° · 85 % · 24 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 18° · 86 % · 34 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 24° · 65 % · 40 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 43 % · 56 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 60 % · 19 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 71 % · 24 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 41 % · 43 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 51 % · 33 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

614
hectares burned
2.7 %
of its area
3
fires
226
km²

How many times has Hitachi burned?

Hitachi has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Hitachi fire, 10 October 2026, with 247 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 614 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 404 hectares, 1.8 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
614
cumulative ha
404
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 Hitachi

  1. 247 ha Hitachi fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 247 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 105 ha Hitachi fire, 10 October 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 210 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 262 ha Hitachi fire, March 2023 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 261 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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