Wildfire
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 near Belize, the active Wildfire has scorched 150 ha (371 acres) since it started on 2026-07-24.
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the front, alongside 9 heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours.
In context
This wildfire burned in Belize for 4 days. In total it burned about 150 ha (371 acres) — around 1.5 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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