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Wildfires in Kakheti

Kakheti, Georgia: 199 fires with a page have entered 8 of its 8 municipalities since 2016, burning 135,877 hectares inside the region. The largest was Dedoplis Tskaro in 4 August 2026, with 14,840 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
135,877ha
Since 2016
Of the region
12%
11,480 km²
fires
199
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
8
of 8
Largest fire
14,840ha
Dedoplis Tskaro · 4 August 2026
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Mon 26 Very low 16° · 65 % · 13 km/h
  2. Tue 27 Very low 16° · 63 % · 14 km/h
  3. Wed 28 Very low 16° · 67 % · 17 km/h
  4. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 94 % · 19 km/h
  5. Fri 30 Very low 12° · 68 % · 14 km/h
  6. Sat 31 Very low 17° · 57 % · 17 km/h
  7. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 59 % · 21 km/h
  8. Mon 2 Very low 18° · 56 % · 26 km/h

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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. Dedoplis Tskaro 87,788 ha · 34 %
  2. Sighnaghi 41,827 ha · 32 %
  3. Akhmeta 2,582 ha · 1.1 %
  4. Sagarejo 2,078 ha · 1.4 %
  5. Qvareli 795 ha · 0.9 %
  6. Telavi 605 ha · 0.5 %
  7. Lagodekhi 125 ha · 0.2 %
  8. Gurjaani 76 ha · 0.1 %

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
20262732,230 Dedoplis Tskaro 14,840 ha
20253022,201 Dedoplis Tskaro 3,753 ha
2024125,371 Dedoplis Tskaro 996 ha
202341,444 Sighnaghi 394 ha
2022146,823 Sighnaghi 800 ha
2021199,435 Sighnaghi 1,320 ha
2020129,142 Sighnaghi 3,296 ha
20191912,064 Sighnaghi 2,727 ha
20182716,010 Sighnaghi 1,757 ha
20171710,820 Dedoplis Tskaro 1,552 ha
20161810,336 Dedoplis Tskaro 1,394 ha

All fires in Kakheti · 199

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).

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