Wildfire near Carmen
Started on Jul 29, 2026.
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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).
Active fires nearby2 · 100 km
Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Carmen, Mexico, where six heat detections have been registered over the past 48 hours.
Spanning 150 hectares (371 acres), the fire has been active since July 29, 2026.
In context
This wildfire burned in Mexico for 2 days. In total it burned about 150 ha (371 acres) — around 1.5 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 Mexico
Across Mexico, roughly 1,318,451 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 69% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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