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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 14 August 2022 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 14 Aug 2022, 10:00 UTC

The fire started on 14 August 2022 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 360 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 133th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 15 in Georgia in 2022, of 20.

The power measured by the satellite is low (14.1 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
360ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
14 Aug 2022 – 14 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
14 Aug
2022
Heat detections
4
in a single hotspot: 14 MW
Danger at start
30
High · FWI index
Energy released
45MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 14 Aug14 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

14

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

The weather it burned in

32°high
29km/h · peak gust
26%lowest humidity

It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    361 ha reached on 14 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)
14 Aug 32.0 °C 26 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
15 Aug after 32.9 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
16 Aug after 33.6 °C 26 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
17 Aug after 33.4 °C 24 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
18 Aug after 31.6 °C 21 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 38
19 Aug after 29.6 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
20 Aug after 31.1 °C 24 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
21 Aug after 29.8 °C 29 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
22 Aug after 28.6 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
23 Aug after 27.8 °C 29 % 31 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
24 Aug after 27.4 °C 28 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 7 Aug 2022
After · 21 Aug 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.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 12 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 13 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak13 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1036 µg/m³
Optical depth0.37
121314151617
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Detections table · 4Every 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 14 August 2022 and 14 August 2022: 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 360 hectares (3.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (361 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.0 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 29 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 30, 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.