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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, March 2022 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 25 Mar 2022, 09:22 UTC

The fire started on 23 March 2022 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 367 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

We are reviewing this page: some of its data look inconsistent (the place, the dates or the area), so treat them with caution.

The power measured by the satellite is low (16.2 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
367ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
23 Mar 2022 – 25 Mar 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
23 Mar
2022
Heat detections
7
in a single hotspot: 16 MW
Danger at start
1
Very low · FWI index
Energy released
54MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 23 Mar25 Mar

How it evolved, day by day

25

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

The weather it burned in

15°high
55km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 2 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

61% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 223 ha in 2016.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    4 ha
    0.0 %

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)
23 Mar 7.7 °C 50 % 55 km/h 0.2 mm Very low 1
24 Mar 6.2 °C 68 % 42 km/h 1.1 mm Very low 0
25 Mar 15.3 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 2
26 Mar after 14.2 °C 34 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very low 4
27 Mar after 14.6 °C 29 % 37 km/h 0.1 mm Low 6
28 Mar after 14.3 °C 29 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
29 Mar after 15.5 °C 21 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Low 6
30 Mar after 21.6 °C 14 % 17 km/h 0.0 mm Low 9
31 Mar after 25.3 °C 12 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
1 Apr after 24.2 °C 17 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
2 Apr after 28.9 °C 6 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
3 Apr after 32.6 °C 4 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
4 Apr after 27.4 °C 19 % 54 km/h 0.0 mm High 31

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 16 Mar 2022
After · 1 Apr 2022

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 · 7Every 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 23 March 2022 and 25 March 2022: 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 367 hectares (3.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (4 ha, 0.0 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 15.3 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 55 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 2, class Very low.
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.