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Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 22 July 2025 Dedoplis Tskaro

Out · last detection 24 Jul 2025, 23:03 UTC

The fire started on 22 July 2025 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 401 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 112th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 28 in Georgia in 2025, of 49.

Burnt area
401ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
2days
22 Jul 2025 – 23 Jul 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
22 Jul
2025
Heat detections
11
in a single hotspot: 55 MW
Danger at start
23
High · FWI index
Energy released
159MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

24 Jul 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 22 Jul23 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

222324

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
24km/h · peak gust
30%lowest humidity

It had gone 14 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

18% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 71 ha in 2022.

What happened to each town

  1. Dedoplis Tskaro where it started
    402 ha reached on 22 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)
22 Jul 33.7 °C 30 % 21 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
23 Jul 32.9 °C 36 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
24 Jul after 33.5 °C 42 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
25 Jul after 30.4 °C 48 % 30 km/h 0.3 mm Moderate 20
26 Jul after 29.2 °C 46 % 28 km/h 0.5 mm High 22
27 Jul after 31.8 °C 38 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 20
28 Jul after 33.9 °C 34 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
29 Jul after 32.9 °C 43 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
30 Jul after 32.9 °C 47 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
31 Jul after 34.0 °C 42 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm High 24
1 Aug after 33.3 °C 43 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
2 Aug after 33.0 °C 38 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 15 Jul 2025
After · 30 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 23 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 26 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak26 µg/m³
Days over the guideline4 days
PM10110 µg/m³
Optical depth0.55
20212223242526
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 · 11Every 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 22 July 2025 and 23 July 2025: 2 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 401 hectares (4.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (402 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 33.7 °C, humidity dropped to 30 % and gusts hit 24 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 23, 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.