Template:Land-box The Land of Fire (火の国, Hi no Kuni) is one of the largest and most powerful countries in the series. Its main hidden village, Konohagakure, is the home of the main cast.
The Land of Fire is appropriately oriented towards the element of fire, typically having very bright and warm weather. While not the largest country, it has one of the 5 largest hidden villages.
The Land of Fire has been involved in wars with the Lightning Country, the Earth Country, the Wind Country and later the Sound Country. Twelve years before the story begins, the Land of Fire was attacked by an exceedingly powerful demon, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. This monster destroyed anything in its path and killed countless people, including, among several others, Iruka Umino's parents. It was stopped by Konohagakure's Fourth Hokage. He sacrificed his own life to seal the monster inside his newborn child, Naruto Uzumaki.
In the quiet years that followed, the Land of Fire slowly recovered and became accustomed to peace. This was seen by other countries who had been working to increase their military power — as a weakness, and is one of the factors that brought about the combined assault from conspiring Otogakure and Sunagakure causing the death of the Third Hokage by Orochimaru causing Tsunade to become Konohagakure's current Fifth Hokage.
Some of the major families/clans that reside in The Land of Fire are the Senju, Sarutobi, Hyuugas, Inuzukas, Aburame, Akimichi, Yamanakas, Naras and Uchihas. Notorious for their dojutsu (eye technique) the Hyuugas and Uchihas posses, their secrets have been sought out for many years by rival countries. The most well-known clan in Konoha are the Uchiha clan with their power of the Sharingan and knowledge of Fire Release jutsus, especially their development of their signature jutsu: Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, a popular Chunin-level/C-Rank jutsu in Konohagakure no sato. Besides their ninja forces the land of fire also maintains one of biggest and best equipped conventional armies of the five shinobi nations.