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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2020 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 10 Aug 2020, 09:21 UTC

The fire started on 10 August 2020 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 329 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 160th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 28 in Georgia in 2020, of 31.

Burnt area
329ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
10 Aug 2020 – 10 Aug 2020
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
10 Aug
2020
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 54 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Energy released
223MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Aug10 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

10

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

The weather it burned in

31°high
35km/h · peak gust
35%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 6.8 mm on 14 Aug.

This area had burned before

32% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 88 ha in 2016, 101 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 104 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    329 ha reached on 10 Aug
    0.1 %

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)
10 Aug 31.1 °C 35 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
11 Aug after 27.3 °C 36 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
12 Aug after 29.0 °C 41 % 18 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 18
13 Aug after 28.0 °C 42 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 19
14 Aug after 26.8 °C 50 % 25 km/h 6.8 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 3 Aug 2020
After · 17 Aug 2020

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 · 11Every 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 10 August 2020 and 10 August 2020: 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 329 hectares (3.3 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (329 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 31.1 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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.