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Wildfire near Municipio Concepción (Sep 26)

Ended · 480 hectares (1,186 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
480Hectares1,186Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 26, 2026.

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Wildfire near Municipio Concepción (Sep 26) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Municipio Concepción (Sep 26) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

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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 at an active wildfire burning near Municipio Concepción, Bolivia, where the fire front is actively driving the blaze across a landscape shaped by the dry season.

The fire has consumed 480 hectares (1,186 acres) since it started on September 26, 2026, with remote sensing instruments detecting 43 heat signatures nearby over the last 48 hours to map the surrounding spread.

This incident unfolds during a broader national fire year in which 1,088,429 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 83% below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 480 ha (1,186 acres) — around 4.8 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 1,360,715 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 79% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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