Wildfire near Bojane
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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 the village of Bojane in North Macedonia, an active wildfire has scorched 330 hectares, or approximately 815 acres, since it started on August 27, 2026. Satellites monitoring the incident are currently picking up a low heat signature, reflecting the relative thermal intensity of the front as it moves through the landscape during the warm, dry months of the regional fire season, which typically spans from May to October.
Operational tracking via NASA's FIRMS data reveals 13 distinct heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spatial extent of the active perimeter near Bojane.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in North Macedonia for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 330 ha (815 acres) — about 3.3 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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