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Wildfires in Ubuyama 産山村

Ubuyama, Japan, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 4,338 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 72% 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

4,338
hectares burned
72 %
of its area
21
fires
60
km²

How many times has Ubuyama burned?

Ubuyama has burned 21 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ubuyama fire, March 2026, with 367 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 4,338 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 1,675 hectares, 28 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 4× 26
21
fires
9
years with fire
4,338
cumulative ha
1,675
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 Ubuyama

  1. 367 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2026 where it started 6.1% of the municipality · 416 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 59 ha Minami Oguni fire, 14 March 2026 1.0% of the municipality · 373 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 216 ha Taketa fire, March 2026 3.6% of the municipality · 375 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 290 ha Aso fire, 8 March 2026 4.8% of the municipality · 3,037 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 150 ha Taketa fire, March 2025 2.5% of the municipality · 390 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 307 ha Aso fire, 9 March 2025 5.1% of the municipality · 5,917 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 313 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2024 where it started 5.2% of the municipality · 553 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 295 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2022 where it started 4.9% of the municipality · 295 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 215 ha Aso fire, 6 March 2022 3.6% of the municipality · 2,922 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 299 ha Aso fire, 21 March 2020 5.0% of the municipality · 5,178 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 250 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2020 where it started 4.1% of the municipality · 249 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 170 ha Ubuyama fire, March 2019 where it started 2.8% of the municipality · 220 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 3 ha Aso fire, 24 March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 1,880 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 183 ha Ubuyama fire, 25 March 2018 where it started 3.0% of the municipality · 231 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 258 ha Ubuyama fire, 25 March 2018 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 328 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 139 ha Aso fire, 11 March 2018 2.3% of the municipality · 6,426 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 237 ha Ubuyama fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 264 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 177 ha Ubuyama fire, 19 March 2017 where it started 2.9% of the municipality · 302 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 21 ha Minami Oguni fire, 11 March 2017 0.4% of the municipality · 323 ha in total · 1 day
  20. 261 ha Ubuyama fire, 21 March 2016 where it started 4.3% of the municipality · 260 ha in total · 1 day
  21. 125 ha Ubuyama fire, 21 March 2016 where it started 2.1% 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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