Wildfire near San Antonio, Belize (2026)

Wildfire near San Antonio — Sentinel-2 true color

Wildfire near San Antonio — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego)

True view Fire view

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True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

Drag to compare: normal photo on the left, heat brought out on the right.

Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

The story so far

About 20 km southeast of San Antonio.

Summary written on Jul 25, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.

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. That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.

Close to the tropics, fires tend to follow the dry season and are often linked to land-clearing rather than a single summer peak.