Japan has deployed more than 2,000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades. At least one person has died in the blaze, which has torched more than 5,200 acres around the northern Japanese city of Ofunato since Thursday,

This blaze is the largest forest fire Japan has faced since a 1992 wildfire in Hokkaido, which destroyed more than 1,000 hectares of land. The current fire in Ofunato is exacerbated by the region's unusually dry weather. February 2025 was reported as the driest February in over two decades, with very little rainfall.

Thousands evacuated as Japan battles largest forest fire in decades More than 2,000 firefighters have been deployed to combat Japan’s largest forest fire

Japan ’s biggest wildfire in more than 30 years continues to rage with at least 2,100 hectares scorched and one fatality reported so far, as climate analysts have warned such occurrences may become more common in the country due to climate change.

Nearly 1,700 firefighters are battling Japan's biggest wildfire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory. One person died last week in the blaze in the northern prefecture of Iwate,

Thousands of people evacuated from parts of northern Japan as the country's largest wildfire in three decades raged unabated Sunday after killing at least one person, officials said.

Japan’s largest wildfire in more than three decades was burning through a forested area of a small coastal city on Sunday after killing at least one person.

More than 2,000 firefighters are battling Japan's biggest forest fire in three decades, officials said Monday, as some 4,600 residents remain under an evacuation advisory.Around 2,000 people have left the area to stay with friends or relatives,

Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on Saturday, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of more than a thousand. Flames are estimated to have spread over about 1,