Wildfire near Barra (Jul 27)
Started on Jul 27, 2026.
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Fire (SWIR)
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🟢 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 Barra, Brazil, an active wildfire spanning 330 hectares (815 acres) has been tracked by satellites picking up an intense heat signature. Ten recent heat detections cluster nearby, outlining the current spread of the fire that started on July 27, 2026.
In context
This wildfire burned in Brazil for 2 days. In total it burned about 330 ha (815 acres) — around 3.3 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 5,198,712 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 83% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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