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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 27 August 2022 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 27 Aug 2022, 10:57 UTC

The fire started on 27 August 2022 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 312 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 179th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 19 in Georgia in 2022, of 20.

Burnt area
312ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
1day
27 Aug 2022 – 27 Aug 2022
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
27 Aug
2022
Heat detections
6
in a single hotspot: 54 MW
Danger at start
34
High · FWI index
Energy released
178MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

HOTSPOTS BY DAY 27 Aug27 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

27

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

The weather it burned in

30°high
30km/h · peak gust
32%lowest humidity

It had gone 20 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.5 mm on 5 Sept.

This area had burned before

84% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 192 ha in 2016, 243 ha in 2018. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 263 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    312 ha reached on 27 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)
27 Aug 30.4 °C 32 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
28 Aug after 30.2 °C 28 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
29 Aug after 30.7 °C 28 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
30 Aug after 31.1 °C 26 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
31 Aug after 32.8 °C 26 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
1 Sept after 33.9 °C 28 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
2 Sept after 34.5 °C 29 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 34
3 Sept after 33.7 °C 25 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 35
4 Sept after 35.7 °C 21 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 38
5 Sept after 31.0 °C 39 % 27 km/h 1.5 mm Moderate 18

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 20 Aug 2022
After · 3 Sept 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 28 August 2022 the air beside the fire reached 8 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak8 µg/m³
Days over the guideline0 days
PM1019 µg/m³
Optical depth0.26
252627282930
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 · 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 27 August 2022 and 27 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 312 hectares (3.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (312 ha, 0.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 30.4 °C, humidity dropped to 32 % and gusts hit 30 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, 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.