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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
The story so far
Burning near Calcutta, Suriname, an active wildfire has reached an estimated size of 330 hectares, or about 815 acres, since it started on October 31, 2026. Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from the active front, alongside 16 heat detections nearby in the last 48 hours that indicate how far the fire has spread across the landscape. The wildfire is currently burning during the dry season.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Suriname for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 330 ha (815 acres) — about 3.3 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.
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