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The day the forest fire occurred in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture

Forest fire in Ofunato City (Wikipedia CC4.0)
Forest fire in Ofunato City (Source: Wikipedia,　photographed at Sakihama Fishing Port,　SanrikuPHOTO – copyrighted work by the uploader)

The Ofunato City forest fire was a forest fire that occurred in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture on February 26, 2025 (Reiwa 7)

The burned area exceeded 2,900 hectares, surpassing the 1,030-hectare forest fire that occurred in Kushiro City, Hokkaido in 1992, making it the largest forest fire in Japan since the Heisei era

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