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Wildfire near Municipio Ascención de Guarayos

Active · 730 hectares (1,804 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbersDay 2
730Hectares1,804Acres2Days burning

Started on Sep 16, 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

A moderate heat signature is being picked up by satellites over a 680-hectare (1,680-acre) active wildfire burning near Municipio Ascención de Guarayos, Bolivia. The incident, which began on September 16, 2026, has registered 27 heat detections in the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the fire front across the landscape during the dry season.

This active blaze unfolds within a broader national landscape that has seen 963,311 hectares burn so far in 2026, a figure that remains 85% below the country's two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire has been burning in Bolivia for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 730 ha (1,804 acres) — about 7.3 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 963,311 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 85% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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