Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 8 August 2026 Dedoplis Tskaro
The fire started on 8 August 2026 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 2 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 300 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 207th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 40 in Georgia in 2026, of 40.
The power measured by the satellite is low (4.7 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
- 300ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 2days
- 8 Aug 2026 – 9 Aug 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 8 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 5
- in a single hotspot: 5 MW
- Danger at start
- 35
- High · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 14MW
- detected power per day, on average
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
8 Aug 2026 · 14 MW · 5
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 18 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.8 mm on 14 Aug.
This area had burned before
56% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 1 ha in 2017, 39 ha in 2018, 136 ha in 2025.
- 136 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2025 3,749 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 39 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2018 1,392 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1 ha Dedoplis Tskaro fire, July 2017 773 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 started300 ha0.1 %
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Aug | 34.3 °C | 26 % | 55 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 35 |
| 9 Aug | 34.8 °C | 23 % | 48 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 34 |
| 10 Aug after | 32.5 °C | 26 % | 44 km/h | 0.4 mm | High 36 |
| 11 Aug after | 30.5 °C | 47 % | 26 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 24 |
| 12 Aug after | 31.5 °C | 39 % | 29 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 25 |
| 13 Aug after | 32.8 °C | 34 % | 31 km/h | 0.6 mm | High 25 |
| 14 Aug after | 29.4 °C | 38 % | 28 km/h | 8.8 mm | Very low 5 |
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 8 August 2026 the air beside the fire reached 31 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 · 5Every 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 · 4 days · 5 km away
- 14,812 haDedoplis Tskaro4 August 2026 · 9 days · 9 km away
- 1,972 haDedoplis Tskaro3 August 2019 · 3 days · 20 km away
- 3,290 haSighnaghi5 July 2020 · 5 days · 24 km away
- 2,722 haSighnaghi2 July 2019 · 7 days · 29 km away
- 2,028 haSighnaghi31 July 2026 · 6 days · 34 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 8 August 2026 and 9 August 2026: 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 300 hectares (3.0 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (300 ha, 0.1 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 34.8 °C, humidity dropped to 23 % and gusts hit 55 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
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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.