Wildfire
Started on Jul 28, 2026.
True color
Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Burning in Belize, an active wildfire spanning 100 hectares (247 acres) has triggered four satellite heat detections over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the front. Satellites are also picking up an intense heat signature from the blaze.
Having started on July 28, 2026, the fire continues to burn.
In context
This wildfire burned in Belize for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 km².
Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.
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