Wildfire near Minas
Started on Jul 27, 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).
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Minas, Cuba, which has scorched 350 ha (865 acres) since it started on 2026-07-27.
The fire's active spread is further evidenced by 18 recent heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours.
In context
This wildfire burned in Cuba for 2 days. In total it burned about 330 ha (815 acres) — around 3.3 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.
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