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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 4 August 2017 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 4 Aug 2017, 10:24 UTC

The fire started on 4 August 2017 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 345 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 154th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 41 in Georgia in 2017, of 49.

The power measured by the satellite is low (7.0 MW in the strongest hotspot), more typical of grass or stubble burning, or a slow surface fire, than of a large crown fire.

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Burnt area
345ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
4 Aug 2017 – 6 Aug 2017
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
4 Aug
2017
Heat detections
2
in a single hotspot: 7 MW
Danger at start
36
High · FWI index
Average daily power
14MW
detected power per day, on average

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 4 Aug6 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

4 Aug 2017 · 14 MW · 2

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
35km/h · peak gust
21%lowest humidity

It had gone 23 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

34% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 119 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    346 ha
    0.1 %

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

People and buildings inside the perimeter

GHSL 2015
Built-up area< 0.1 ha
Residents< 20

Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2015, satellite-based estimate).

This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned.

Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu

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)
4 Aug 33.1 °C 27 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
5 Aug 33.9 °C 27 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
6 Aug 35.1 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
7 Aug after 35.8 °C 19 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
8 Aug after 36.4 °C 18 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
9 Aug after 36.1 °C 19 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
10 Aug after 37.0 °C 19 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 49
11 Aug after 32.1 °C 31 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Aug after 32.2 °C 26 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
13 Aug after 33.1 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
14 Aug after 32.0 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
15 Aug after 32.1 °C 21 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
16 Aug after 28.1 °C 35 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm High 37

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 28 Jul 2017
After · 13 Aug 2017

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 · 2Every 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 4 August 2017 and 6 August 2017: 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 345 hectares (3.4 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (346 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.1 °C, humidity dropped to 21 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 40, class Very 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›

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How we know this
  • Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
  • Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 2 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
  • We have not matched this page with any official record.
  • Weather: Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, in cells of about 25 km.
  • Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2015, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.

How we build fire pages: methodology ›

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.