Ōfunato wildfire

2025 CE.

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On 26 February 2025, a wildfire began in the southeast of Ōfunato, a city in the Iwate Prefecture of Japan. The fire grew to cover 2,900 ha (7,200 acres) before it was extinguished on 9 March, making it the largest wildfire in Japan in over 50 years. It destroyed 171 structures, killed one person, and forced over 4,500 people to evacuate.

Text from the Wikipedia article Ōfunato wildfire, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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