Started on Jul 31, 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
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.
In the Southern Hemisphere the season runs the other way, peaking roughly from November through March.
The bigger picture in Argentina
Across Argentina, roughly 791,628 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 81% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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