Wildfire near Concepción (Jul 24 · SW)
Started on Jul 24, 2026.
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Fire (SWIR)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Operating under moderate satellite heat intensity, an active 200-hectare (494-acre) wildfire continues to burn near Concepción, Bolivia, after igniting on July 24, 2026. Satellite monitoring has detected 12 distinct heat signatures over the past 48 hours, mapping the immediate spread of the front across the area.
In context
This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 4 days. In total it burned about 200 ha (494 acres) — around 2.0 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 Bolivia
Across Bolivia, roughly 917,890 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 86% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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