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 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 975 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 29th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 9 in Georgia in 2025, of 53.
The power measured by the satellite is low (8.7 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
- 975ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 2days
- 27 Jul 2025 – 28 Jul 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 Jul
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 53
- in a single hotspot: 9 MW
- Danger at start
- 17
- Moderate · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 72MW
- 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 one day without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
75% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 188 ha in 2016, 459 ha in 2017, 122 ha in 2018, 275 ha in 2021, 7 ha in 2022, 247 ha in 2023, 118 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 728 ha that had burned before.
- 275 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2021 306 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 247 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2023 324 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 221 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2017 1,092 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 135 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 490 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 122 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2018 354 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 118 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, September 2024 341 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 36 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 379 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 18 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, August 2016 393 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 started978 ha0.4 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul | 31.1 °C | 39 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
| 28 Jul | 33.1 °C | 35 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 29 Jul after | 32.2 °C | 43 % | 18 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 30 Jul after | 31.9 °C | 47 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 20 |
| 31 Jul after | 33.3 °C | 44 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 21 |
| 1 Aug after | 32.4 °C | 44 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 2 Aug after | 32.6 °C | 40 % | 20 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 22 |
| 3 Aug after | 34.6 °C | 33 % | 23 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 4 Aug after | 33.7 °C | 33 % | 22 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 25 |
| 5 Aug after | 33.8 °C | 32 % | 25 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 27 |
| 6 Aug after | 33.0 °C | 34 % | 21 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 26 |
| 7 Aug after | 32.9 °C | 31 % | 24 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.
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 29 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 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 · 53Every 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 · 3 km away
- 3,749 haDedoplis Tskaro26 July 2025 · 4 days · 8 km away
- 3,290 haSighnaghi5 July 2020 · 5 days · 13 km away
- 2,722 haSighnaghi2 July 2019 · 7 days · 17 km away
- 1,972 haDedoplis Tskaro3 August 2019 · 3 days · 22 km away
- 2,028 haSighnaghi31 July 2026 · 6 days · 23 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 27 July 2025 and 28 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 975 hectares (9.8 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (978 ha, 0.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 33.1 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 22 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, 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.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 53 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.