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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
Summary written on Jul 31, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Burning across 100 hectares (247 acres) in Commune Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, an active wildfire that began on July 30, 2026, continues to maintain a moderate heat signature according to satellite observations.
Surrounding the active fire front, satellites have detected a cluster of 10 heat signatures over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current extent of the spread in the area.
In context
This wildfire burned in Haiti for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 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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