Wildfires in Samtskhe–Javakheti
Samtskhe–Javakheti, Georgia: 7 fires with a page have entered 4 of its 6 municipalities since 2016, burning 5,719 hectares inside the region. The largest was Borjomi in August 2017, with 2,878 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
- 5,719ha
- Since 2016
- Of the region
- 0.9%
- 6,405 km²
- fires
- 7
- Since 2016
- municipalities with fire
- 4
- of 6
- Largest fire
- 2,878ha
- Borjomi · August 2017
- Inhabitants
- —
Fire danger, today and the coming days
FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast- Fri 23 Very low 13° · 49 % · 25 km/h
- Sat 24 Very low 16° · 39 % · 22 km/h
- Sun 25 Very low 14° · 50 % · 23 km/h
- Mon 26 Very low 16° · 42 % · 25 km/h
- Tue 27 Very low 17° · 36 % · 27 km/h
- Wed 28 Very low 18° · 43 % · 31 km/h
- Thu 29 Very low 12° · 71 % · 32 km/h
- Fri 30 Very low 15° · 56 % · 43 km/h
Click a perimeter to see which fire it is
The municipalities that burned most
- Borjomi 3,470 ha · 2.9 %
- Akhalkalaki 945 ha · 0.7 %
- Aspindza 845 ha · 0.9 %
- Akhaltsikhe 459 ha · 0.4 %
Municipalities that burn again and again
Municipalities with two or more large fires (1,000 ha or more) since 2016.
- 3×Borjomi3,470 ha
- 3×Akhalkalaki945 ha
- 2×Aspindza845 ha
Largest recorded fires
- 2,878 haBorjomiAugust 2017 · 5 days
- 593 haBorjomiAugust 2022 · 5 days
- 580 haAspindzaSeptember 2017 · 3 days
- 508 haAspindzaApril 2017 · 3 days
- 458 haBorjomiSeptember 2017 · 2 days
- 360 haAkhalkalakiOctober 2019 · 1 day
- 342 haAkhalkalakiNovember 2025 · 1 day
Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.
Year by year
| Year | fires | hectares burned | Largest of the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 | 342 | Akhalkalaki 342 ha |
| 2022 | 1 | 593 | Borjomi 593 ha |
| 2019 | 1 | 360 | Akhalkalaki 360 ha |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,424 | Borjomi 2,878 ha |
All fires in Samtskhe–Javakheti · 7
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).