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Wildfires in Ofunato 大船渡市

Ofunato, Japan, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2025: 2,320 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 7.2% 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 26 Very low 15° · 60 % · 32 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 74 % · 44 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 52 % · 65 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 69 % · 23 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 19° · 56 % · 55 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 14° · 42 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 67 % · 39 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

2,320
hectares burned
7.2 %
of its area
3
fires
321
km²

How many times has Ofunato burned?

Ofunato has burned 3 times since 2016, in 1 year: 2025. The most recent: Ofunato fire, 26 February 2025, with 1,632 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11.   26
3
fires
1
years with fire
2,320
cumulative ha
26 Feb 2025
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 Ofunato

  1. 1,632 ha Ofunato fire, 26 February 2025 where it started 5.1% of the municipality · 1,630 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 283 ha Ofunato fire, 26 February 2025 where it started 0.9% of the municipality · 307 ha in total · 4 days
  3. 406 ha Ofunato fire, 19 February 2025 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 461 ha in total · 4 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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