Wildfire near La Primavera (Jul 24)
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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 La Primavera, Colombia, an active wildfire spanning 130 ha (321 acres) that began on July 24, 2026, has prompted satellites to detect a moderate heat signature from its front.
Mapping systems indicate that five recent heat detections have clustered nearby in the area over the last 48 hours.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colombia for 4 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.
The bigger picture in Colombia
Across Colombia, roughly 965,745 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 54% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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