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Wildfire near Fuerte Olimpo

Ended · 380 hectares (939 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
380Hectares939Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Jul 29, 2026.

Wildfire near Fuerte Olimpo — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Fuerte Olimpo — 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 Fuerte Olimpo in Paraguay, an active wildfire has consumed 380 ha (939 acres) since it started on 2026-07-29. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature alongside 19 heat detections over the past 48 hours, signaling significant activity.

In context

This wildfire burned in Paraguay for 2 days. In total it burned about 380 ha (939 acres) — around 3.8 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 Paraguay

Across Paraguay, roughly 579,365 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 81% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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