Wildfire near Dzilam de Bravo
Started on Jul 29, 2026.
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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).
Burning near Dzilam de Bravo, Mexico, an active wildfire spanning 280 hectares (692 acres) that started on July 29, 2026, is currently generating an intense heat signature according to satellite data.
Orbiting sensors have registered 11 heat detections over the past 48 hours in the immediate vicinity of the blaze.
In context
This wildfire burned in Mexico for 2 days. In total it burned about 280 ha (692 acres) — around 2.8 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 1,317,659 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 69% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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