Wildfire near Villa Berthet, Argentina (2026)

Wildfire near Villa Berthet — Sentinel-2 true color

Wildfire near Villa Berthet — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego)

True view Fire view

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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

Drag to compare: normal photo on the left, heat brought out on the right.

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

The story so far

Summary written on Aug 1, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.

Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature at an active wildfire burning near Municipio de Villa Berthet, Argentina, where 13 heat detections have been registered over the past 48 hours. The fire has consumed 300 hectares, equivalent to 741 acres, since it started on July 31, 2026.

This incident unfolds during a wider national context in which 545,532 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, a figure that remains 87 percent below the two-decade average. Such activity occurs outside the country's typical fire season, which runs from December to March.

In context

This wildfire burned in Argentina for 2 days. In total it burned about 300 ha (741 acres) — around 3.0 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.

In the Southern Hemisphere the season runs the other way, peaking roughly from November through March.