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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 13 August 2021 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 14 Aug 2021, 10:44 UTC

The fire started on 13 August 2021 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 308 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 189th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 29 in Georgia in 2021, of 32.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.4 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
308ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
13 Aug 2021 – 14 Aug 2021
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
13 Aug
2021
Heat detections
6
in a single hotspot: 13 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Energy released
44MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

14 Aug 2021
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Aug14 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

1314

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

The weather it burned in

34°high
35km/h · peak gust
23%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

35% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 106 ha in 2016, 16 ha in 2017. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 107 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    308 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)
13 Aug 34.1 °C 23 % 20 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
14 Aug 32.6 °C 27 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
15 Aug after 31.6 °C 24 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
16 Aug after 28.9 °C 20 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
17 Aug after 28.9 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
18 Aug after 31.5 °C 21 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
19 Aug after 31.6 °C 24 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 43
20 Aug after 31.2 °C 25 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
21 Aug after 32.5 °C 21 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
22 Aug after 31.3 °C 24 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
23 Aug after 32.1 °C 25 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
24 Aug after 30.8 °C 35 % 31 km/h 0.9 mm High 25

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Aug 2021
After · 21 Aug 2021

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 · 6Every 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 13 August 2021 and 14 August 2021: 2 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 308 hectares (3.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (308 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.1 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 39, 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

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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.