Wildfires in Kagoshima Prefecture鹿児島県
Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan: 10 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 39 municipalities since 2016, burning 1,620 hectares inside the region. The largest was Kirishima in 6 March 2018, with 337 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).
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
- 1,620ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.2%
- 9,341 km²
- fires
- 10
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 39
- Largest fire
- 337ha
- Kirishima · 6 March 2018
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 13 Low 23° · 56 % · 23 km/h
- Sat 14 Low 24° · 63 % · 33 km/h
- Sun 15 Very low 25° · 76 % · 51 km/h
- Mon 16 Very low 24° · 64 % · 43 km/h
- Tue 17 Very low 23° · 67 % · 26 km/h
- Wed 18 Low 23° · 68 % · 79 km/h
- Thu 19 Moderate 20° · 63 % · 84 km/h
- Fri 20 Low 19° · 63 % · 54 km/h
- Sat 21 Low 19° · 54 % · 68 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Yuusui 581 ha · 4.0 %
- Kirishima 524 ha · 0.9 %
- Satsuma 483 ha · 1.6 %
- Satsumasendai 32 ha · 0.0 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (200 ha or more) since 2016.
- 6×Yuusui581 ha
- 2×Kirishima524 ha
- 2×Satsuma483 ha
- 2×Satsumasendai32 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 337 haKirishima 霧島市6 March 2018 · 12 days
- 292 haSatsuma さつま町20 March 2026 · 1 day
- 228 haYuusui 湧水町March 2019 · 1 day
- 223 haSatsuma さつま町16 March 2026 · 1 day
- 187 haKirishima 霧島市22 March 2018 · 15 days
- 159 haEbino えびの市March 2024 · 1 day
- 132 haEbino えびの市March 2021 · 1 day
- 40 haEbino えびの市February 2016 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
All fires in Kagoshima Prefecture · 10
Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.
- 292 haSatsuma さつま町20 March 2026 · 1 day
- 223 haSatsuma さつま町16 March 2026 · 1 day
- 18 haEbino えびの市February 2026 · 1 day
- 159 haEbino えびの市March 2024 · 1 day
- 132 haEbino えびの市March 2021 · 1 day
- 228 haYuusui 湧水町March 2019 · 1 day
- 187 haKirishima 霧島市22 March 2018 · 15 days
- 337 haKirishima 霧島市6 March 2018 · 12 days
- 4 haEbino えびの市March 2017 · 1 day
- 40 haEbino えびの市February 2016 · 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 (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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