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Wildfire near Municipio Ixiamas (Aug 31 · NE)

Ended · 800 hectares (1,977 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
800Hectares1,977Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Aug 31, 2026.

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4Fires · 7d123Hotspots 48h1,770Hectares · 7d
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Wildfire near Municipio Ixiamas (Aug 31 · NE) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Municipio Ixiamas (Aug 31 · NE) — 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 the active wildfire burning near Municipio Ixiamas, Bolivia, where 13 heat detections have clustered over the past 48 hours to mark the spread of the front. Having started on August 30, 2026, the blaze has consumed 330 hectares, or 815 acres, during the local dry season.

The broader fire activity unfolds within a national landscape where 754,047 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a total that sits 88% below the two-decade average for the country.

In context

This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 800 ha (1,977 acres) — around 8.0 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 942,179 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 85% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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