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Wildfires in Ureshino 嬉野市

Ureshino, Japan, has had 5 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 319 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 2.5% 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. Fri 13 Very low 18° · 59 % · 27 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 19° · 77 % · 33 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 19° · 81 % · 49 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 19° · 61 % · 30 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 19° · 69 % · 28 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 17° · 70 % · 72 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 11° · 64 % · 70 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 10° · 69 % · 47 km/h
  9. Sat 21 Very low 10° · 61 % · 59 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Ureshino: hourly forecast

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

319
hectares burned
2.5 %
of its area
5
fires
127
km²

How many times has Ureshino burned?

Ureshino has burned 5 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2026. The most recent: Higashi Sonogi fire, March 2026, with 142 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 319 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 167 hectares, 1.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 1× 16
  2.   17
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  4.   19
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5
fires
5
years with fire
319
cumulative ha
167
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 Ureshino

  1. 142 ha Higashi Sonogi fire, March 2026 1.1% of the municipality · 797 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 18 ha Higashi Sonogi fire, March 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 419 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 23 ha Higashi Sonogi fire, February 2021 0.2% of the municipality · 413 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 122 ha Higashi Sonogi fire, February 2020 1.0% of the municipality · 599 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 14 ha Higashi Sonogi fire, February 2016 0.1% of the municipality · 316 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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