Wildfire near Cajeme
Started on Jul 24, 2026.
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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 Cajeme in Mexico, an active wildfire spanning 100 hectares, or 247 acres, has maintained a moderate heat intensity according to peak fire radiative power detected from space. Satellites are picking up four heat signatures clustering nearby, mapping the current spread of the fire front since it started on July 24, 2026.
In context
This wildfire burned in Mexico for 4 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Mexico
Across Mexico, roughly 1,315,613 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 70% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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