Started on Sep 21, 2026.
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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
Burning actively in Bolivia near the city of Municipio Ascención de Guarayos, a wildfire has scorched 930 hectares, equivalent to 2,298 acres, since its start on September 17, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up a moderate heat signature from the front, while 37 heat detections cluster nearby over the last 48 hours to indicate the current spread of the fire across the landscape during the dry season.
This ongoing incident unfolds within a broader national context where 963,311 hectares have burned so far in 2026, a figure that remains 85 percent below the country's two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 530 ha (1,310 acres) — around 5.3 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 Bolivia
Across Bolivia, roughly 1,273,479 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 80% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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