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Wildfires in Osato 大郷町

Osato, Japan, has had 3 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2022: 494 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 6.0% 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 16° · 75 % · 14 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 78 % · 29 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 59 % · 26 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 18° · 69 % · 49 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 12° · 50 % · 69 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 14° · 55 % · 54 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 64 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 20° · 74 % · 55 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

494
hectares burned
6.0 %
of its area
3
fires
82
km²

How many times has Osato burned?

Osato has burned 3 times since 2016, in 2 years: 2022 and 2023. The most recent: Osato fire, September 2023, with 169 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 494 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 211 hectares, 2.6 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4.   19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
3
fires
2
years with fire
494
cumulative ha
211
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 Osato

  1. 169 ha Osato fire, September 2023 where it started 2.1% of the municipality · 257 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 142 ha Osato fire, September 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 224 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 183 ha Osato fire, April 2022 where it started 2.2% of the municipality · 289 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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