Wildfire near Indian Creek
Started on Sep 11, 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 near Indian Creek, Belize, an active wildfire has scorched 180 ha (445 acres) over its first two days of activity, expanding at an average daily growth rate of approximately 90 ha/day since it started on September 10, 2026.
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the front, with NASA FIRMS registering seven heat detections in the past 48 hours that cluster nearby to outline how far the fire has spread across the landscape.
This incident is unfolding during the region's typical fire season, the dry season.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Belize for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 150 ha (371 acres) — about 1.5 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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