Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 10 September 2021 Dedoplis Tskaro
The fire started on 10 September 2021 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 751 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 47th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 5 in Georgia in 2021, of 32.
The power measured by the satellite is low (20.2 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
- 751ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 10 Sept 2021 – 10 Sept 2021
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 10 Sept
- 2021
- Heat detections
- 19
- in a single hotspot: 20 MW
- Danger at start
- 14
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 223MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
10 Sept 2021 · 223 MW · 19
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 2.8 mm on 17 Sept.
This area had burned before
30% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 158 ha in 2016, 129 ha in 2019, 48 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 229 ha that had burned before.
- 110 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 1,092 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 48 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 395 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 48 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2020 329 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2019 1,972 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Dedoplis Tskaro where it started751 ha0.3 %
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 Sept | 24.0 °C | 34 % | 17 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 14 |
| 11 Sept after | 26.5 °C | 34 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 19 |
| 12 Sept after | 24.8 °C | 54 % | 21 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 13 Sept after | 28.6 °C | 38 % | 16 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 16 |
| 14 Sept after | 30.3 °C | 34 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 15 Sept after | 28.7 °C | 38 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 24 |
| 16 Sept after | 29.0 °C | 36 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 23 |
| 17 Sept after | 26.0 °C | 40 % | 27 km/h | 2.8 mm | Low 7 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
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 · 19Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 September 2021 and 10 September 2021: 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 751 hectares (7.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (751 ha, 0.3 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 24.0 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 17 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 14, class Moderate.
- 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
Satellite cross-check
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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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. 19 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.
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.