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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 6 September 2018 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 6 Sept 2018, 09:22 UTC

The fire started on 6 September 2018 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 397 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 114th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 19 in Georgia in 2018, of 30.

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.

Burnt area
397ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
6 Sept 2018 – 6 Sept 2018
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
6 Sept
2018
Heat detections
8
in a single hotspot: 7 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
39MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Sept6 Sept

How it evolved, day by day

6

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

The weather it burned in

27°high
28km/h · peak gust
31%lowest humidity

It had gone 17 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.3 mm on 16 Sept.

This area had burned before

70% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 163 ha in 2016, 264 ha in 2017. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 276 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    397 ha reached on 6 Sept
    0.2 %

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)
6 Sept 27.4 °C 31 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
7 Sept after 29.0 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
8 Sept after 30.0 °C 30 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
9 Sept after 28.0 °C 40 % 20 km/h 0.7 mm Moderate 16
10 Sept after 28.7 °C 31 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
11 Sept after 29.9 °C 30 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Sept after 29.0 °C 36 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
13 Sept after 27.8 °C 41 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
14 Sept after 29.1 °C 37 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
15 Sept after 29.0 °C 41 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
16 Sept after 30.1 °C 32 % 31 km/h 1.3 mm Moderate 20

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 30 Aug 2018
After · 13 Sept 2018

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 · 8Every 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 6 September 2018 and 6 September 2018: 1 day 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 397 hectares (4.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (397 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 27.4 °C, humidity dropped to 31 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 26, 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.