Wildfire near Krasnodar
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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 Krasnodar, Russia, an active wildfire spanning 230 hectares (568 acres) since its start on July 22, 2026, is currently producing an intense heat signature detected by satellites.
Orbiting sensors have picked up nine heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the active spread of the front.
In context
This wildfire burned in Russia for 2 days. In total it burned about 230 ha (568 acres) — around 2.3 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Russia
Across Russia, roughly 7,374,511 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 49% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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