Dedoplis Tskaro fire, 22 September 2026 Dedoplis Tskaro
The fire started on 22 September 2026 in Dedoplis Tskaro, Georgia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 308 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 195th largest in Kakheti since 2016 (of 208 with a page). Number 37 in Georgia in 2026, of 40.
The power measured by the satellite is low (24.3 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
- 308ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 22 Sept 2026 – 27 Sept 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 22 Sept
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 5
- in a single hotspot: 24 MW
- Average daily power
- 34MW
- 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.
This area had burned before
97% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 2 ha in 2016, 130 ha in 2018, 199 ha in 2019. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 298 ha that had burned before.
What happened to each town
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Dedoplis Tskaro where it started309 ha reached on 24 Sept0.1 %
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.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Inside the perimeter there was no noticeable built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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.
Detections table · 5Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Other fires nearby
- 1,972 haDedoplis Tskaro1 August 2019 · 5 days · 14 km away
- 1,566 haDedoplis Tskaro4 August 2026 · 9 days · 18 km away
- 1,550 haDedoplis Tskaro25 July 2017 · 22 days · 29 km away
- 2,310 haShaki DistrictAugust 2017 · 4 days · 30 km away
- 3,749 haDedoplis Tskaro26 July 2025 · 10 days · 33 km away
- 14,812 haDedoplis Tskaro4 August 2026 · 9 days · 35 km away
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Dedoplis Tskaro fire last?
- According to the heat detections seen by satellite inside the perimeter, it burned from 22 September 2026 to 27 September 2026 (6 days). The perimeter dates it from 24 September 2026 to 27 September 2026.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 308 hectares (3.1 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Dedoplis Tskaro (309 ha, 0.1 %).
- Is the Dedoplis Tskaro fire still active?
- No fire detections since 27 Sept 2026, 10:58 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- 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 adjusted with the VIIRS detections inside the perimeter, which said 24 September 2026 to 27 September 2026. 5 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.