Wildfires in Saga Prefecture佐賀県
Saga Prefecture, Japan: 5 fires with a page have entered 1 of its 20 municipalities since 2016, burning 319 hectares inside the region. The largest was Higashi Sonogi in March 2026, with 142 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
- 319ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.1%
- 2,446 km²
- fires
- 5
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 1
- of 20
- Largest fire
- 142ha
- Higashi Sonogi · March 2026
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Wed 4 Very low 20° · 56 % · 27 km/h
- Thu 5 Very low 22° · 86 % · 37 km/h
- Fri 6 Very low 20° · 40 % · 40 km/h
- Sat 7 Very low 15° · 39 % · 35 km/h
- Sun 8 Very low 16° · 49 % · 26 km/h
- Mon 9 Very low 14° · 73 % · 26 km/h
- Tue 10 Very low 17° · 47 % · 39 km/h
- Wed 11 Very low 18° · 39 % · 27 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Ureshino 319 ha · 2.5 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (200 ha or more) since 2016.
- 5×Ureshino319 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 142 haHigashi Sonogi 東彼杵町March 2026 · 1 day
- 122 haHigashi Sonogi 東彼杵町February 2020 · 1 day
- 23 haHigashi Sonogi 東彼杵町February 2021 · 1 day
- 18 haHigashi Sonogi 東彼杵町March 2023 · 1 day
- 14 haHigashi Sonogi 東彼杵町February 2016 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 142 | Higashi Sonogi 142 ha |
| 2023 | 1 | 18 | Higashi Sonogi 18 ha |
| 2021 | 1 | 23 | Higashi Sonogi 23 ha |
| 2020 | 1 | 122 | Higashi Sonogi 122 ha |
| 2016 | 1 | 14 | Higashi Sonogi 14 ha |
All fires in Saga Prefecture · 5
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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