Wildfire near Ascención de Guarayos (Jul 23), Bolivia (2026)

Wildfire near Ascención de Guarayos (Jul 23) — Sentinel-2 true color

Wildfire near Ascención de Guarayos (Jul 23) — 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

Summary written on Jul 24, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.

Burning near Ascención de Guarayos, Bolivia, an active wildfire has scorched 230 hectares (568 acres) since it started on July 23, 2026. Satellites have registered a moderate heat intensity from the front.

In the past 48 hours, monitoring systems have detected 12 heat signatures clustering nearby, indicating the current spatial extent of the spreading fire.

In context

This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 230 ha (568 acres) — around 2.3 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.