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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 9 August 2016 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 11 Aug 2016, 08:57 UTC

The fire started on 9 August 2016 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 1,092 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 22th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 4 in Georgia in 2016, of 38.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.7 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

Burnt area
1,092ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
9 Aug 2016 – 11 Aug 2016
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
9 Aug
2016
Heat detections
23
in a single hotspot: 15 MW
Danger at start
24
High · FWI index
Energy released
107MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

11 Aug 2016
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 9 Aug11 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

91011

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

35°high
33km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 10 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    1,094 ha reached on 9 Aug
    0.4 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
9 Aug 34.2 °C 24 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
10 Aug 33.8 °C 23 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
11 Aug 34.6 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
12 Aug after 35.1 °C 28 % 26 km/h 0.2 mm High 25
13 Aug after 35.5 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
14 Aug after 35.2 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
15 Aug after 33.4 °C 27 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
16 Aug after 29.7 °C 40 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
17 Aug after 30.9 °C 33 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 27
18 Aug after 32.3 °C 28 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
19 Aug after 32.8 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
20 Aug after 33.4 °C 24 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
21 Aug after 33.0 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 32

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 2 Aug 2016
After · 18 Aug 2016

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 23Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 9 August 2016 and 11 August 2016: 3 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 1,092 hectares (10.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (1,094 ha, 0.4 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.6 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 33 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 24, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Georgia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.