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Wildfires in Taketa 竹田市

Taketa, Japan, has had 11 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 1,711 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 3.6% 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. Tue 3 Very low 16° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  2. Wed 4 Very low 15° · 80 % · 26 km/h
  3. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 73 % · 48 km/h
  4. Fri 6 Very low 16° · 55 % · 49 km/h
  5. Sat 7 Very low 11° · 46 % · 32 km/h
  6. Sun 8 Very low 12° · 65 % · 20 km/h
  7. Mon 9 Very low 15° · 56 % · 25 km/h
  8. Tue 10 Very low 12° · 62 % · 33 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

1,711
hectares burned
3.6 %
of its area
11
fires
479
km²

How many times has Taketa burned?

Taketa has burned 11 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ubuyama fire, March 2026, with 50 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 1,711 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 979 hectares, 2.0 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 2× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
9
years with fire
1,711
cumulative ha
979
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 Taketa

  1. 50 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 416 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 160 ha Taketa fire, March 2026 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 375 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 241 ha Taketa fire, March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 390 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 242 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2024 0.5% of the municipality · 553 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 337 ha Taketa fire, February 2022 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 336 ha in total · 3 days
  6. 251 ha Taketa fire, February 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 250 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 51 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2019 0.1% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 49 ha Ubuyama fire, 25 March 2018 0.1% of the municipality · 231 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 126 ha Ubuyama fire, 19 March 2017 0.3% of the municipality · 302 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 23 ha Ubuyama fire, 19 March 2017 0.0% of the municipality · 264 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 182 ha Ubuyama fire, 21 March 2016 0.4% of the municipality · 307 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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