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Wildfires in Karumai 軽米町

Karumai, Japan, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2021: 435 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 1.8% 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. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 94 % · 31 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 40 % · 61 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 13° · 36 % · 39 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 12° · 75 % · 37 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 68 % · 65 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 5° · 50 % · 79 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 6° · 47 % · 79 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 6° · 61 % · 63 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

435
hectares burned
1.8 %
of its area
2
fires
246
km²

How many times has Karumai burned?

Karumai has burned 2 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2021 and 2025. The most recent: Karumai fire, September 2025, with 216 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6. 1× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
2
fires
2
years with fire
435
cumulative ha
28 Sept 2025
most recent

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 Karumai

  1. 216 ha Karumai fire, September 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 216 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 219 ha Karumai fire, October 2021 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 219 ha in total · 4 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).

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