Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 21 August 2025 Georgia
The fire started on 21 August 2025 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 370 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 126th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 201 with a page). Number 31 in Georgia in 2025, of 49.
The power measured by the satellite is low (23.1 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
- 370ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 1day
- 21 Aug 2025 – 21 Aug 2025
- Municipalities hit
- 0
- municipalities
- Started on
- 21 Aug
- 2025
- Heat detections
- 8
- in a single hotspot: 23 MW
- Danger at start
- 49
- Very high · FWI index
- Energy released
- 82MW
- sum of detected power
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 6 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Aug | 34.5 °C | 24 % | 52 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 49 |
| 22 Aug after | 32.0 °C | 31 % | 38 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 23 Aug after | 33.1 °C | 30 % | 24 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
| 24 Aug after | 36.7 °C | 22 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 41 |
| 25 Aug after | 34.1 °C | 30 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 38 |
| 26 Aug after | 32.1 °C | 33 % | 35 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 37 |
| 27 Aug after | 31.8 °C | 32 % | 42 km/h | 0.0 mm | Very high 40 |
| 28 Aug after | 30.7 °C | 40 % | 34 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 29 Aug after | 32.1 °C | 32 % | 36 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 30 Aug after | 33.1 °C | 25 % | 32 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 31 Aug after | 35.2 °C | 23 % | 27 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 36 |
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 22 August 2025 the air beside the fire reached 18 µg/m³ of PM2.5, but no daily average passed the WHO 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 · 8Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 21 August 2025 and 21 August 2025: 1 day 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 370 hectares (3.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.5 °C, humidity dropped to 24 % and gusts hit 52 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 49, class Very 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.