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Wildfires in Minakami みなかみ町

Minakami, Japan, has had one large fire recorded by GWIS since 2026: 246 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 0.3% 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 21° · 81 % · 25 km/h
  2. Mon 26 Very low 14° · 94 % · 22 km/h
  3. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 70 % · 60 km/h
  4. Wed 28 Very low 9° · 75 % · 66 km/h
  5. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 57 % · 31 km/h
  6. Fri 30 Very low 13° · 65 % · 27 km/h
  7. Sat 31 Very low 14° · 48 % · 59 km/h
  8. Sun 1 Very low 13° · 48 % · 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

246
hectares burned
0.3 %
of its area
1
fires
782
km²

How many times has Minakami burned?

Minakami has burned once since 2016, in 1 year: 2026. The most recent: Minakami fire, October 2026, with 246 hectares inside the municipality.

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  11. 1× 26
1
fires
1
years with fire
246
cumulative ha
11 Oct 2026
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 Minakami

  1. 246 ha Minakami fire, October 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 246 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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