Wildfire near Filadelfia (Jul 28)
Started on Jul 28, 2026.
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Fire (SWIR)
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).
Burning with an intense heat signature detected by satellites, an active wildfire near Filadelfia, Paraguay, has scorched 330 hectares (815 acres) since it began on July 28, 2026.
Monitoring systems have picked up 25 heat detections in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours, illustrating the ongoing spread of the blaze.
In context
This wildfire burned in Paraguay for 2 days. In total it burned about 330 ha (815 acres) — around 3.3 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.
The bigger picture in Paraguay
Across Paraguay, roughly 573,667 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 81% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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