Wildfire near Municipio Exaltación (Jul 27)
Started on Jul 27, 2026.
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Burning near Municipio Exaltación, Bolivia, an active wildfire has expanded across 500 ha (1,236 acres) since its ignition on July 27, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up an intense heat signature from the front, indicating powerful radiative energy as the flames advance.
The scale of the incident is further underscored by 20 heat detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, mapping the extent of the fire's recent spread across the landscape.
In context
This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 1 day. In total it burned about 400 ha (988 acres) — around 4.0 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 917,890 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 86% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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