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Wildfires in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti

Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia: 29 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 8 municipalities since 2016, burning 15,876 hectares inside the region. The largest was Zugdidi in March 2020, with 1,427 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
15,876ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.1%
7,463 km²
fires
29
Since 2016
municipalities with fire
4
of 8
Largest fire
1,427ha
Zugdidi · March 2020
Inhabitants
—

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 14 Very low 8° · 72 % · 21 km/h
  2. Sun 15 Very low 5° · 83 % · 47 km/h
  3. Mon 16 Very low 3° · 41 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 17 Very low 6° · 23 % · 20 km/h
  5. Wed 18 Very low 7° · 42 % · 20 km/h
  6. Thu 19 Very low 6° · 49 % · 44 km/h
  7. Fri 20 Very low 6° · 44 % · 50 km/h
  8. Sat 21 Very low 8° · 86 % · 53 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. Khobi 10,261 ha · 14 %
  2. Zugdidi 4,640 ha · 7.3 %
  3. Chkhorotsku 661 ha · 1.1 %
  4. Martvili 313 ha · 0.4 %

Municipalities that burn again and again

Municipalities with two or more large fires (300 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
202611,104 Khobi 1,104 ha
202521,199 Zugdidi 667 ha
202342,354 Khobi 1,059 ha
20221273 Gali 273 ha
202172,761 Chkhorotsku 661 ha
202011,427 Zugdidi 1,427 ha
201921,998 Khobi 1,123 ha
201772,832 Khobi 718 ha
201641,928 Zugdidi 649 ha

All fires in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti · 29

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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