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Wildfire near Municipio Concepción

Active · 630 hectares (1,557 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbersDay 2
630Hectares1,557Acres2Days burning

Started on Sep 25, 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 near Municipio Concepción, Bolivia, an active wildfire spanning 630 ha (1,557 acres) has been tracked since September 25, 2026, during the dry season. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the front, alongside 55 heat detections clustering nearby over the past 48 hours to indicate the extent of the spread.

This incident unfolds within a broader national picture where 1,071,206 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 83% below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire has been burning in Bolivia for 1 day. So far it has affected roughly 630 ha (1,557 acres) — about 6.3 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 1,071,206 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 83% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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