Wildfire near Altamira (Jul 24)
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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 Altamira, Brazil, an active 130-hectare (321-acre) wildfire that started on July 24, 2026, is currently exhibiting moderate heat intensity as detected from space. Satellites are actively picking up five heat signatures clustered nearby, indicating the ongoing spread and activity of the fire front in the area.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 4 days. In total it burned about 130 ha (321 acres) — around 1.3 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.
The bigger picture in Brazil
Across Brazil, roughly 5,025,251 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 84% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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