Miyagi publishes bear reports by city, ward, town, and village
Miyagi Prefecture posts annual and current spreadsheets of bear sightings and signs. They show prefecturewide totals, monthly timing, and the local area named for each report, so Zao Town and Sendai wards can be checked separately from town alert messages and injury notices.
Short answer
Miyagi publishes official spreadsheets of bear sightings and signs, and each report includes a city, ward, town, or village. The reviewed files show 3,559 reports in FY2025 and 644 reports in FY2026 through June 18, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Zao can be pulled from the same files; municipal alerts remain local warnings, not annual totals.
These are reports of sightings, tracks, droppings, damage, and other signs of bears. They are not bear population counts. Japanese fiscal years are used here: H24 is FY2012 and R8 is FY2026. The FY2026 file was still in progress when checked on June 18, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., so do not turn it into a full-year estimate. Injury maps and national injury tables answer a separate question.
Official records
What the public records show
Scope: Miyagi Prefecture · Sendai wards · local area column · official archive. Each panel names where its numbers come from, so prefecture totals, town alerts, and injury documents are not folded into one danger score.
Files checked
FY2012-FY2026
15 fiscal-year files reviewed
FY2025 reports
3,559
Highest annual total in these Miyagi files
FY2026 so far
644
Through June 18, 2026, 9:00 a.m.; not a full-year total
FY2026 early months
140 · 312 · 192
April, May, and June 1-18 reports
Miyagi’s bear spreadsheets go back to FY2012
Miyagi publishes annual and current files of bear sightings and signs. The reviewed files cover FY2012 through FY2026-to-date for the prefecture and keep the local area column available for separate city, ward, town, or village views.
April through June 2026 are already higher than recent years
FY2026 is not an annual total yet. The timing still matters: April, May, and June through the 18th are already above the same months in FY2022-FY2025 for the prefecture as a whole.
Monthly report counts
| Month | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 | FY2025 | FY2026 to Jun 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr | 34 | 25 | 32 | 26 | 140 |
| May | 99 | 96 | 91 | 111 | 312 |
| Jun | 104 | 132 | 199 | 151 | 192 |
| Jul | 77 | 158 | 155 | 250 | — |
| Aug | 105 | 95 | 106 | 225 | — |
| Sep | 63 | 119 | 82 | 241 | — |
| Oct | 30 | 275 | 48 | 1,239 | — |
| Nov | 8 | 344 | 15 | 969 | — |
| Dec | 8 | 76 | 28 | 214 | — |
| Jan | 3 | 15 | 12 | 71 | — |
| Feb | 8 | 10 | 13 | 33 | — |
| Mar | 10 | 12 | 19 | 29 | — |
Blank cells mean that FY2026 has not reached those months in the checked file.
Keep injury records separate from bear reports
Miyagi links injury notices and maps from the bear information pages. Those documents answer a separate question: people injured by bears. They are separate from sighting and sign totals.
- FY2023
- Injury notice and injury map linked
- Miyagi’s FY2023 bear information page includes Nov. 17 injury notice and updated map PDFs
- FY2024
- Injury map linked from annual bear information page
- Separate injury material, not a FY2024-only bear report count
- National context
- Ministry of the Environment bear injury tables
- Wider injury context, not local movement
How these numbers were counted
- •Miyagi annual totals use the official spreadsheet total when one is provided; FY2026 is the current total as of June 18, 2026, 9:00 a.m.
- •Monthly charts only allocate records with usable month values; H30 has one official-total record with unknown month that is not placed in a monthly bucket.
- •The spreadsheet includes a city, ward, town, or village for each report, so Zao Town and Sendai wards are reviewable separately without guessing.
- •Local alert messages answer a different question: what residents were warned about in specific places.
- •Injury maps, releases, and Ministry of the Environment injury tables stay beside the bear reports; they are not added to the report totals.
Does Miyagi publish bear data?
Miyagi publishes usable official bear data. The annual and current spreadsheets give prefecturewide totals and keep the city, ward, town, or village label needed for local comparisons.
Zao Town alerts belong in a separate note because they answer a different question: what the town is warning residents about in specific places.
What’s in the Miyagi spreadsheet
Miyagi publishes official bear sighting and sign reports as annual Excel files and PDFs. The reviewed files go back to H24 / FY2012 and run through R8 / FY2026-to-date.
The file carries both the prefecture total and the local place label. That makes it strong for the Miyagi-wide series, while local alerts and place detail belong in separate local notes.
- •Miyagi H24 / FY2012 official spreadsheet records: 908
- •Miyagi H25 / FY2013 official spreadsheet records: 512
- •Miyagi H26 / FY2014 official spreadsheet total: 906
- •Miyagi H27 / FY2015 official spreadsheet records: 504
- •Miyagi H28 / FY2016 official spreadsheet records: 1,642
- •Miyagi H29 / FY2017 official spreadsheet records: 880
- •Miyagi H30 / FY2018 official spreadsheet total: 1,035
- •Miyagi R1 / FY2019 official spreadsheet records: 883
- •Miyagi R2 / FY2020 official spreadsheet records: 1,280
- •Miyagi R3 / FY2021 official spreadsheet total: 680
- •Miyagi R4 / FY2022 official spreadsheet records: 549
- •Miyagi R5 / FY2023 official spreadsheet records: 1,357
- •Miyagi R6 / FY2024 official spreadsheet records: 800
- •Miyagi R7 / FY2025 official spreadsheet records: 3,559
- •Miyagi R8 / FY2026 to Jun 18 official spreadsheet records: 644
What FY2026 can and cannot tell us yet
R8 / FY2026 is not an annual total. The early months still show pressure: April has 140 reports, May has 312, and June has 192 through June 18 in the checked spreadsheet.
The number is not an annualized total. The monthly pattern remains incomplete until the summer and autumn months are available for full fiscal-year comparison.
How Zao and Sendai fit into the file
The same file supports local filtering. Zao Town is one example; Sendai wards can be handled the same way because the source labels city, ward, town, and village, not just prefecture.
Keeping that boundary clear prevents the prefecture-wide series from swallowing every local warning. The official records explain the broad pattern; local notes explain alerts and place detail.
Why injury records stay separate
Miyagi’s bear information pages also link injury-related material, including an R5 injury release and a human injury map linked from annual pages. Those are not replacements for the bear report spreadsheet. They are injury documents that belong beside the report trend.
The same rule applies to Ministry of the Environment injury tables. They provide national context and cross-prefecture framing, separate from Miyagi’s sighting and sign report totals.
Official pages checked for this note
Miyagi Prefecture bear report spreadsheets
- Miyagi bear information archive index
- Miyagi H24 bear report page
- Miyagi H25 bear report page
- Miyagi H26 bear report page
- Miyagi H27 bear report page
- Miyagi H28 bear report page
- Miyagi H29 bear report page
- Miyagi H30 bear report page
- Miyagi R1 bear report page
- Miyagi R2 bear report page
- Miyagi R3 bear report page
- Miyagi R4 bear report page
- Miyagi R5 bear report page
- Miyagi R6 bear report page
- Miyagi R7 bear report page
- Miyagi R7 official spreadsheet
- Miyagi R8 bear report page
- Miyagi R8 official spreadsheet