Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 27 July 2025 Dedoplis Tskaro
The fire started on 27 July 2025 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 482 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 97th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 24 in Georgia in 2025, of 53.
The power measured by the satellite is low (15.3 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
- 482ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 3days
- 27 Jul 2025 – 29 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 20
- in a single hotspot: 15 MW
- Danger at start
- 32
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 28MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
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 21 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
79% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 224 ha in 2016, 1 ha in 2017, 113 ha in 2018, 313 ha in 2019, 81 ha in 2021, 97 ha in 2022. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 379 ha that had burned before.
- 313 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2019 657 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 224 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 1,043 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 113 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2018 306 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 81 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, September 2021 340 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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Dedoplis Tskaro where it started482 ha reached on 27 Jul0.2 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul | 34.2 °C | 26 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 29 Jul | 32.8 °C | 36 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 30 Jul after | 33.0 °C | 37 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 31 Jul after | 34.1 °C | 35 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 1 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 2 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 31 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 3 Aug after | 34.9 °C | 25 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 4 Aug after | 34.1 °C | 23 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 5 Aug after | 34.7 °C | 24 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 6 Aug after | 33.7 °C | 26 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 7 Aug after | 33.4 °C | 24 % | 33 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 8 Aug after | 34.0 °C | 22 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 44 |
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.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 28 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 61 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 30: 2.0 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
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 · 20Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 3,749 haDedoplis Tskaro26 July 2025 · 10 days · 10 km away
- 1,972 haDedoplis Tskaro1 August 2019 · 5 days · 11 km away
- 14,812 haDedoplis Tskaro4 August 2026 · 9 days · 13 km away
- 3,290 haSighnaghi5 July 2020 · 5 days · 29 km away
- 2,722 haSighnaghi2 July 2019 · 9 days · 32 km away
- 2,028 haSighnaghi25 July 2026 · 14 days · 38 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 27 July 2025 to 29 July 2025 (3 days). The perimeter dates it from 28 July 2025 to 29 July 2025.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 482 hectares (4.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (482 ha, 0.2 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.2 °C, humidity dropped to 26 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 32, 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 · Emergency number and official warnings ›
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
- Start date: 28 July 2025 → 27 July 2025.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 28 July 2025 to 29 July 2025. 20 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.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.