Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 26 July 2025 Dedoplis Tskaro
The fire started on 26 July 2025 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 4 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,749 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 2th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). The largest in Georgia in 2025, of 53.
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- Burnt area
- 3,749ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 4days
- 26 Jul 2025 – 29 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 26 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 202
- in a single hotspot: 66 MW
- Danger at start
- 26
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 257MW
- 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 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
74% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1,250 ha in 2016, 1,198 ha in 2017, 1,626 ha in 2018, 506 ha in 2019, 448 ha in 2020, 607 ha in 2021, 841 ha in 2022, 10 ha in 2023, 673 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 2,766 ha that had burned before.
- 1,009 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2018 1,392 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 855 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 1,392 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 643 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2024 994 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 589 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2017 773 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 506 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2019 893 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 389 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, June 2021 491 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 347 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2022 496 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 318 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2018 697 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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Dedoplis Tskaro where it started3,753 ha1.4 %
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.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Jul | 31.5 °C | 34 % | 28 km/h | 0.2 mm | High 26 |
| 27 Jul | 33.5 °C | 29 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 29 |
| 28 Jul | 35.5 °C | 25 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 29 Jul | 34.3 °C | 35 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 30 Jul after | 34.6 °C | 36 % | 30 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 31 Jul after | 35.6 °C | 33 % | 28 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 1 Aug after | 34.4 °C | 35 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 2 Aug after | 34.5 °C | 30 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 38 |
| 3 Aug after | 36.4 °C | 26 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 39 |
| 4 Aug after | 35.7 °C | 22 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 5 Aug after | 36.2 °C | 23 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 42 |
| 6 Aug after | 35.2 °C | 25 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 7 Aug after | 35.0 °C | 23 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 8 Aug after | 35.5 °C | 22 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 48 |
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 · 202Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
- 14,812 haDedoplis Tskaro4 August 2026 · 9 days · 5 km away
- 1,566 haDedoplis Tskaro5 August 2026 · 8 days · 16 km away
- 1,972 haDedoplis Tskaro3 August 2019 · 3 days · 19 km away
- 3,290 haSighnaghi5 July 2020 · 5 days · 20 km away
- 2,722 haSighnaghi2 July 2019 · 7 days · 25 km away
- 2,028 haSighnaghi31 July 2026 · 6 days · 30 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 26 July 2025 and 29 July 2025: 4 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 3,749 hectares (37.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (3,753 ha, 1.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 35.5 °C, humidity dropped to 25 % and gusts hit 28 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 35, 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 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 24 October 2026.
No changes since 24 October 2026.
Does something look wrong on this page?
This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery; 3 polygons grouped in this page.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 202 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.
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.