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Wildfires in Kusu 玖珠町

Kusu, Japan, has had 15 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2019: 7,114 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 25% 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. Sat 24 Very low 24° · 75 % · 43 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 24° · 74 % · 42 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 19° · 97 % · 53 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 67 % · 56 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 13° · 58 % · 40 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 17° · 50 % · 33 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 91 % · 52 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 16° · 47 % · 61 km/h
  9. Sun 1 Very low 20° · 48 % · 52 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

7,114
hectares burned
25 %
of its area
15
fires
288
km²

How many times has Kusu burned?

Kusu has burned 15 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Kusu fire, March 2026, with 269 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 7,114 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 2,980 hectares, 10 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 3× 26
15
fires
7
years with fire
7,114
cumulative ha
2,980
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 Kusu

  1. 269 ha Kusu fire, March 2026 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 278 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 378 ha Kusu fire, February 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 377 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 903 ha Kusu fire, January 2026 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 927 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 857 ha Kusu fire, 30 March 2025 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 854 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 252 ha Kusu fire, 23 March 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 251 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 337 ha Kusu fire, 9 March 2025 where it started 1.2% of the municipality · 336 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 658 ha Kusu fire, February 2025 where it started 2.3% of the municipality · 720 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 308 ha Kusu fire, March 2024 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 307 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 364 ha Kusu fire, March 2022 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 363 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 222 ha Kusu fire, 27 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 222 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 221 ha Kusu fire, 27 March 2021 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 1,068 ha Kusu fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 3.7% of the municipality · 1,065 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 208 ha Kusu fire, 21 March 2020 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 207 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 824 ha Kusu fire, 17 March 2019 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 821 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 245 ha Kusu fire, 9 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 244 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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