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Wildfires in Miyazaki Prefecture
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-12 10:27 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 473 km² of Miyazaki Prefecture at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 60 km², ranking 9th of 47 regions of Japan.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2014, with 120 km² detected; the quietest was 2023, with 20 km². The 2021–2025 average is 26% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
January, February and March together hold 58% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 19 January 2014, with detections in 80 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 473 km² with at least one detection, 19% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 284 | 60% |
| 2 years | 100 | 21% |
| 3 to 5 years | 80 | 17% |
| 6 to 10 years | 8.5 | 1.8% |
| 11 years or more | 1.0 | 0.2% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 32.25, 131.75 and holds 36% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 59 | 92 |
| 2013 | 57 | 101 |
| 2014 | 120 | 139 |
| 2015 | 64 | 107 |
| 2016 | 35 | 62 |
| 2017 | 69 | 107 |
| 2018 | 59 | 180 |
| 2019 | 95 | 124 |
| 2020 | 36 | 56 |
| 2021 | 77 | 92 |
| 2022 | 26 | 61 |
| 2023 | 20 | 54 |
| 2024 | 80 | 81 |
| 2025 | 43 | 54 |
Other regions of Japan
- Kumamoto Prefecture142 km² in an average year
- Fukuoka Prefecture100 km² in an average year
- Hokkaidō96 km² in an average year
- Aichi Prefecture94 km² in an average year
- Chiba Prefecture77 km² in an average year
- Ōita Prefecture72 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Kumamoto Prefecture72 km
- Kagoshima Prefecture109 km
- Ōita Prefecture111 km
- Kōchi Prefecture179 km
- Fukuoka Prefecture191 km
- Yamaguchi Prefecture222 km