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Wildfires in Kirishima 霧島市

Kirishima, Japan, has had 2 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2018: 524 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.9% 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. Wed 28 Very low 21° · 40 % · 31 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 53 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 22° · 72 % · 36 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 22° · 44 % · 41 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 57 % · 23 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 23° · 77 % · 43 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 22° · 41 % · 28 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 54 % · 44 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

524
hectares burned
0.9 %
of its area
2
fires
605
km²

How many times has Kirishima burned?

Kirishima has burned 2 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2018. The most recent: Kirishima fire, 22 March 2018, with 187 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
2
fires
1
years with fire
524
cumulative ha
22 Mar 2018
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 Kirishima

  1. 187 ha Kirishima fire, 22 March 2018 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 347 ha in total · 15 days
  2. 337 ha Kirishima fire, 6 March 2018 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 557 ha in total · 12 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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