On a cross section with a sheet width direction of a high-strength hot-rolled steel sheet set as a normal line, with regard to an inclusion having a major diameter of 3.0 μm or more, a maximum of a major diameter/minor diameter ratio expressed by (a major diameter of the inclusion)/(a minor diameter of the inclusion) is 8.0 or less, and a sum total of a rolling direction length per 1 mm2 cross section of a predetermined inclusion group composed of plural inclusions each having a major diameter of 3.0 μm or more and a predetermined extended inclusion having a length in a rolling direction of 30 μm or more is 0.25 mm or less. The plural inclusions composing the predetermined inclusion group congregate in both the rolling direction and a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction 50 μm or less apart from each other. The predetermined extended inclusion is spaced over 50 μm apart from all the inclusions each having a major diameter of 3.0 μm or more in at least either the rolling direction or the direction perpendicular to the rolling direction.