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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 13 July 2025 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 17 Jul 2025, 09:36 UTC

The fire started on 13 July 2025 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 5 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 391 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 118th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 29 in Georgia in 2025, of 49.

The power measured by the satellite is low (13.6 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
391ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
5days
13 Jul 2025 – 17 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
13 Jul
2025
Heat detections
10
in a single hotspot: 14 MW
Danger at start
12
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
72MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

17 Jul 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 13 Jul17 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

13151617

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
26km/h · peak gust
34%lowest humidity

It had gone 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.4 mm on 25 Jul.

This area had burned before

86% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 214 ha in 2017, 288 ha in 2020, 4 ha in 2021. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 337 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    393 ha reached on 13 Jul
    0.2 %

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 Jul 33.7 °C 41 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 12
14 Jul 34.0 °C 36 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
15 Jul 33.4 °C 36 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 15
16 Jul 33.5 °C 39 % 24 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 17
17 Jul 34.3 °C 34 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
18 Jul after 33.7 °C 43 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
19 Jul after 33.1 °C 46 % 25 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
20 Jul after 34.5 °C 43 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 17
21 Jul after 35.1 °C 41 % 35 km/h 0.1 mm High 22
22 Jul after 35.2 °C 31 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
23 Jul after 34.5 °C 38 % 19 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
24 Jul after 34.8 °C 41 % 22 km/h 0.0 mm High 22
25 Jul after 32.0 °C 48 % 27 km/h 1.4 mm Low 11

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 6 Jul 2025
After · 24 Jul 2025

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 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 28 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 20: 1.3 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak28 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM10113 µg/m³
Optical depth0.43
11121314151617181920
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 · 10Every 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 July 2025 and 17 July 2025: 5 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 391 hectares (3.9 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (393 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 34.3 °C, humidity dropped to 34 % and gusts hit 26 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 18, 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

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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.