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Wildfires in Iwate岩手県

Iwate, Japan: 9 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 29 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,138 hectares inside the region. The largest was Ofunato in 26 February 2025, with 1,632 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
5,138ha
Since 2016
Of the region
0.3%
15,297 km²
fires
9
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 29
Largest fire
1,632ha
Ofunato · 26 February 2025
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 24 Very low 16° · 76 % · 20 km/h
  2. Sun 25 Very low 16° · 65 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 26 Very low 15° · 43 % · 27 km/h
  4. Tue 27 Very low 15° · 68 % · 38 km/h
  5. Wed 28 Very low 8° · 51 % · 61 km/h
  6. Thu 29 Very low 11° · 55 % · 45 km/h
  7. Fri 30 Very low 17° · 55 % · 35 km/h
  8. Sat 31 Very low 15° · 84 % · 46 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Ofunato 2,320 ha · 7.2 %
  2. Otsuchi 1,966 ha · 9.8 %
  3. Karumai 435 ha · 1.8 %
  4. Miyako 212 ha · 0.2 %
  5. Kamaishi 205 ha · 0.5 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202621,966 Otsuchi 1,467 ha
202542,536 Ofunato 1,632 ha
20241212 Miyako 212 ha
20211219 Karumai 219 ha
20171205 Kamaishi 205 ha

All fires in Iwate · 9

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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 (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0). 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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