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Wildfire near Municipio San Joaquin (Sep 5)

Ended · 430 hectares (1,063 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
430Hectares1,063Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 5, 2026.

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Wildfire near Municipio San Joaquin (Sep 5) — Sentinel-2 SWIR

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

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

A moderate heat signature is currently being picked up by satellites near Municipio San Joaquin, Bolivia, where an active wildfire has consumed 430 hectares, or 1,063 acres, since it started on September 5, 2026. Sensors have detected 19 heat signatures over the last 48 hours, indicating the local spread of the incident.

This fire unfolds during the regional dry season. Across the country, 883,024 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 86% below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 430 ha (1,063 acres) — around 4.3 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 1,360,715 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 79% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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