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Wildfires in Ochamchire

Ochamchire, Georgia, has had 21 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 9,244 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 5.2% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

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. Wed 28 Very low 18° · 36 % · 28 km/h
  2. Thu 29 Very low 15° · 68 % · 27 km/h
  3. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 85 % · 25 km/h
  4. Sat 31 Very low 9° · 94 % · 16 km/h
  5. Sun 1 Very low 12° · 60 % · 22 km/h
  6. Mon 2 Very low 14° · 50 % · 31 km/h
  7. Tue 3 Very low 14° · 42 % · 26 km/h
  8. Wed 4 Very low 10° · 62 % · 29 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

9,244
hectares burned
5.2 %
of its area
21
fires
1,783
km²

How many times has Ochamchire burned?

Ochamchire has burned 21 times since 2016, in 9 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Ochamchire fire, 18 March 2026, with 422 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 9,244 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 7,673 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 3× 24
  10. 5× 25
  11. 3× 26
21
fires
9
years with fire
9,244
cumulative ha
7,673
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 Ochamchire

  1. 422 ha Ochamchire fire, 18 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 422 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 332 ha Ochamchire fire, 13 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 332 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 426 ha Ochamchire fire, 13 March 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 426 ha in total · 2 days
  4. 304 ha Ochamchire fire, 15 March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 322 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 353 ha Ochamchire fire, 13 March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 353 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 322 ha Ochamchire fire, 12 March 2025 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 323 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 464 ha Ochamchire fire, 12 March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 465 ha in total · 5 days
  8. 467 ha Ochamchire fire, 12 March 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 468 ha in total · 5 days
  9. 334 ha Ochamchire fire, 26 February 2024 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 334 ha in total · 7 days
  10. 688 ha Ochamchire fire, 26 February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 689 ha in total · 2 days
  11. 496 ha Ochamchire fire, 26 February 2024 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 497 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 663 ha Ochamchire fire, January 2023 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 665 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 328 ha Ochamchire fire, February 2022 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 328 ha in total · 5 days
  14. 583 ha Ochamchire fire, November 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 583 ha in total · 5 days
  15. 318 ha Ochamchire fire, January 2019 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 318 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 328 ha Ochamchire fire, April 2018 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 329 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 341 ha Ochamchire fire, March 2017 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 342 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 520 ha Ochamchire fire, 28 February 2017 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 520 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 676 ha Ochamchire fire, 28 February 2017 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 677 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 502 ha Ochamchire fire, 29 February 2016 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 502 ha in total · 2 days
  21. 378 ha Ochamchire fire, 12 February 2016 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 379 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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