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Wildfires in Nishigo 西郷村

Nishigo, Japan, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2023: 1,014 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.3% 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. Wed 28 Very low 6° · 70 % · 84 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 10° · 56 % · 55 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 46 % · 21 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 65 % · 69 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 8° · 60 % · 66 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 11° · 74 % · 41 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 10° · 76 % · 71 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 63 % · 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

1,014
hectares burned
5.3 %
of its area
3
fires
192
km²

How many times has Nishigo burned?

Nishigo has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Nishigo fire, April 2026, with 537 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,014 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 771 hectares, 4.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 2× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11. 1× 26
3
fires
2
years with fire
1,014
cumulative ha
771
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 Nishigo

  1. 537 ha Nishigo fire, April 2026 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 537 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 277 ha Nishigo fire, April 2023 where it started 1.4% of the municipality · 277 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 200 ha Nishigo fire, March 2023 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 200 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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