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Wildfire near Esmeralda

Ended · 130 hectares (321 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
130Hectares321Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Jul 28, 2026.

Wildfire near Esmeralda — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Esmeralda — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
True view (left): as the eye sees it.
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

Burning near Esmeralda, Cuba, an active 130 ha (321 acres) wildfire that started on July 28, 2026, continues to show moderate satellite heat intensity from its peak fire radiative power.

Satellites are picking up five heat signatures clustering nearby over the last 48 hours, indicating the current spread of the fire.

In context

This wildfire burned in Cuba for 2 days. In total it burned about 130 ha (321 acres) — around 1.3 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.

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