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Wildfires in Lanchkhuti

Lanchkhuti, Georgia, has had 17 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 13,045 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 21% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

Only fires of 300 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 2 Very low 24° · 50 % · 21 km/h
  2. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 49 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 4 Very low 22° · 54 % · 33 km/h
  4. Thu 5 Very low 16° · 63 % · 39 km/h
  5. Fri 6 Very low 14° · 65 % · 11 km/h
  6. Sat 7 Very low 12° · 89 % · 23 km/h
  7. Sun 8 Very low 11° · 94 % · 37 km/h
  8. Mon 9 Very low 10° · 89 % · 49 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

13,045
hectares burned
21 %
of its area
17
fires
612
km²

How many times has Lanchkhuti burned?

Lanchkhuti has burned 17 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026. The most recent: Lanchkhuti fire, 8 January 2026, with 314 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 13,045 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 5,802 hectares, 9.5 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2.   17
  3.   18
  4. 4× 19
  5. 3× 20
  6. 2× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10.   25
  11. 2× 26
17
fires
8
years with fire
13,045
cumulative ha
5,802
distinct ha

Fires larger than 300 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Georgia →

Fires that entered Lanchkhuti

  1. 314 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 8 January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 314 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 648 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 4 January 2026 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 648 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 397 ha Lanchkhuti fire, December 2024 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 397 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 362 ha Lanchkhuti fire, January 2023 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 362 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 23 December 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 1,039 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 8 December 2022 where it started 1.7% of the municipality · 1,039 ha in total · 3 days
  7. 634 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 13 December 2021 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 633 ha in total · 4 days
  8. 3,049 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 12 December 2021 where it started 5.0% of the municipality · 3,048 ha in total · 2 days
  9. 892 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 5 December 2020 where it started 1.5% of the municipality · 892 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 354 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 5 December 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 354 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 985 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 5 December 2020 where it started 1.6% of the municipality · 985 ha in total · 4 days
  12. 675 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 13 December 2019 where it started 1.1% of the municipality · 674 ha in total · 2 days
  13. 443 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 12 December 2019 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 443 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 362 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 25 November 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 362 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 334 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 23 November 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 334 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 319 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 23 December 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 319 ha in total · 2 days
  17. 1,873 ha Lanchkhuti fire, 23 December 2016 where it started 3.1% of the municipality · 1,873 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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