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Wildfires in Abkhazia

Abkhazia, Georgia: 75 fires with a page have entered 5 of its 6 municipalities since 2016, burning 48,350 hectares inside the region. The largest was Sokhumi in November 2019, with 4,288 hectares inside the region. 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.

hectares burned
48,350ha
Since 2016
Of the region
5.6%
8,678 km²
fires
75
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
5
of 6
Largest fire
4,288ha
Sokhumi · November 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 22 Very low 18° · 84 % · 10 km/h
  2. Fri 23 Very low 22° · 54 % · 18 km/h
  3. Sat 24 Very low 21° · 67 % · 18 km/h
  4. Sun 25 Very low 20° · 68 % · 19 km/h
  5. Mon 26 Very low 22° · 58 % · 16 km/h
  6. Tue 27 Very low 23° · 50 % · 17 km/h
  7. Wed 28 Very low 22° · 52 % · 19 km/h
  8. Thu 29 Very low 19° · 74 % · 18 km/h

Click a perimeter to see which fire it is

Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The municipalities that burned most

  1. Gali 24,521 ha · 28 %
  2. Gudauta 9,811 ha · 6.9 %
  3. Ochamchire 9,244 ha · 5.2 %
  4. Sokhumi 3,420 ha · 2.4 %
  5. Gulripshi 1,353 ha · 0.7 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
202672,817 Gali 654 ha
2025125,968 Gali 1,180 ha
202484,274 Gali 1,139 ha
202332,051 Gali 806 ha
20222455 Ochamchire 328 ha
202144,761 Gali 3,043 ha
202084,838 Zugdidi 1,359 ha
2019711,556 Sokhumi 4,288 ha
20181328 Ochamchire 328 ha
2017136,909 Gali 1,803 ha
2016104,393 Sokhumi 552 ha

All fires in Abkhazia · 75

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).