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Wildfire near Minas

Ended · 330 hectares (815 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
330Hectares815Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Jul 27, 2026.

Wildfire near Minas — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Minas — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

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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