Wildfire near Mariscal Estigarribia
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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 Mariscal Estigarribia in Paraguay, an active wildfire spanning 150 hectares (371 acres) that began on July 23, 2026, is currently generating an intense heat signature detected by satellites.
Surrounding the area, six recent NASA FIRMS heat detections over the past 48 hours indicate the extent of the ongoing thermal activity.
In context
This wildfire burned in Paraguay for 2 days. In total it burned about 150 ha (371 acres) — around 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.
The bigger picture in Paraguay
Across Paraguay, roughly 555,831 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 82% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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