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Wildfires in Kumamoto熊本県

Kumamoto, Japan: 94 fires with a page have entered 11 of its 45 municipalities since 2016, burning 67,260 hectares inside the region. The largest was Aso in 11 March 2018, with 6,446 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
67,260ha
Since 2016
Of the region
9.1%
7,416 km²
fires
94
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
11
of 45
Largest fire
6,446ha
Aso · 11 March 2018
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sun 1 Very low 22° · 48 % · 20 km/h
  2. Mon 2 Very low 22° · 62 % · 33 km/h
  3. Tue 3 Very low 21° · 46 % · 25 km/h
  4. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 48 % · 26 km/h
  5. Thu 5 Very low 25° · 64 % · 43 km/h
  6. Fri 6 Very low 20° · 40 % · 33 km/h
  7. Sat 7 Very low 16° · 44 % · 27 km/h
  8. Sun 8 Very low 14° · 52 % · 17 km/h

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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. Aso 38,057 ha · 1.0×
  2. Minami Oguni 10,604 ha · 91 %
  3. Yamato 7,610 ha · 14 %
  4. Ubuyama 4,338 ha · 72 %
  5. Nishihara 3,926 ha · 51 %
  6. Minami Aso 1,447 ha · 10 %
  7. Oguni 677 ha · 4.9 %
  8. Takamori 220 ha · 1.3 %
  9. Mashiki 204 ha · 3.1 %
  10. Mifune 119 ha · 1.2 %
  11. Oodu 57 ha · 0.6 %

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
20261813,477 Aso 3,047 ha
202588,293 Aso 5,935 ha
202431,262 Yamato 676 ha
202382,807 Minami Oguni 542 ha
2022710,278 Aso 4,023 ha
202141,315 Aso 438 ha
2020129,672 Aso 5,195 ha
201984,632 Aso 1,886 ha
20181411,604 Aso 6,446 ha
201772,372 Yamato 524 ha
201651,548 Aso 467 ha

All fires in Kumamoto · 94

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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