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Wildfires in Nikaho にかほ市

Nikaho, Japan, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,181 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 4.9% 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. Mon 2 Very low 13° · 88 % · 54 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 54 % · 50 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 14° · 47 % · 40 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 14° · 67 % · 28 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 17° · 68 % · 67 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 7° · 69 % · 91 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 8° · 52 % · 70 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 7° · 60 % · 62 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

1,181
hectares burned
4.9 %
of its area
3
fires
241
km²

How many times has Nikaho burned?

Nikaho has burned 3 times since 2016, in 3 years: 2016, 2021 and 2026. The most recent: Nikaho fire, April 2026, with 603 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,181 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 606 hectares, 2.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

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3
fires
3
years with fire
1,181
cumulative ha
606
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 Nikaho

  1. 603 ha Nikaho fire, April 2026 where it started 2.5% of the municipality · 603 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 241 ha Nikaho fire, April 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 241 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 336 ha Nikaho fire, May 2016 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 336 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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