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Wildfires in Shida Kartli
Detected · VIIRS 375 m · Suomi NPP, NOAA-20, NOAA-21 · last 24 hours · updated 2026-10-11 09:22 UTC
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Fire history, 2012–2025
Detected · VIIRS S-NPP 375 m · 0.01° cells (~1.1 km) · complete years 2012–2025 · built 2026-09-23
Between 2012 and 2025, VIIRS detected fire in 698 km² of Shida Kartli at least once. In an average year it detected fire in 74 km², ranking 5th of 12 regions of Georgia.
Year by year
Detected area per year, km². Area of 0.01° cells with at least one detection in the year.
The busiest year was 2017, with 125 km² detected; the quietest was 2013, with 28 km². The 2021–2025 average is 8.7% lower than the 2012–2016 average.
Through the year
Share of all fire-days 2012–2025 by month. A fire-day is one cell with a detection on one day.
July, August and September together hold 36% of the fire-days in the record. The single busiest day was 5 April 2012, with detections in 15 cells.
Ground that burns again
Of the 698 km² with at least one detection, 11% had detections in three or more different years.
| Years with a detection | km² | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year | 495 | 71% |
| 2 years | 129 | 18% |
| 3 to 5 years | 64 | 9.2% |
| 6 to 10 years | 8.3 | 1.2% |
| 11 years or more | 0.9 | 0.1% |
The half-degree square with the most fire-days is centred at 41.75, 44.25 and holds 64% of the region's fire-days.
The figures
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| Year | Detected km² | Fire-days |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 80 | 297 |
| 2013 | 28 | 264 |
| 2014 | 50 | 296 |
| 2015 | 112 | 374 |
| 2016 | 79 | 330 |
| 2017 | 125 | 444 |
| 2018 | 42 | 298 |
| 2019 | 98 | 117 |
| 2020 | 104 | 139 |
| 2021 | 42 | 62 |
| 2022 | 77 | 91 |
| 2023 | 45 | 56 |
| 2024 | 60 | 77 |
| 2025 | 95 | 126 |
Other regions of Georgia
- Kakheti493 km² in an average year
- Abkhazia260 km² in an average year
- Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti114 km² in an average year
- Kvemo Kartli101 km² in an average year
- Guria53 km² in an average year
- Samtskhe–Javakheti52 km² in an average year
- How these figures are madeDetected area, cells, and the single-satellite record.
Detected area counts every 0.01° cell with at least one VIIRS detection, so a small fire counts as a whole cell and a fire missed by cloud or between passes is absent. Borders: Natural Earth 1:10m. 2012 begins on 20 January.
Nearby regions
- Kvemo Kartli82 km
- Imereti99 km
- Qazax, Azerbaijan100 km
- Lori, Armenia111 km
- Shirak, Armenia118 km
- Armavir, Armenia166 km