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Wildfire near Municipio San Miguel de Velasco (Aug 23)

Ended · 380 hectares (939 acres) · Started · Updated

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380Hectares939Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Aug 23, 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 the active wildfire burning in Municipio San Miguel de Velasco, Bolivia, where 16 thermal detections over the past 48 hours trace the spread of the front. Having started on August 23, 2026, the fire has consumed 380 hectares (939 acres).

This incident unfolds during the region's typical fire season, the dry season. The wider landscape reflects a comparatively muted year for fire activity across the country, with 699,465 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking an 89 percent decrease below the two-decade average.

In context

This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 380 ha (939 acres) — around 3.8 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 963,311 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 85% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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