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Wildfire near Pădina

Ended · 230 hectares (568 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
230Hectares568Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Aug 1, 2026.

Wildfire near Pădina — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Pădina — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
True view (left): as the eye sees it.
Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 brown = already burned
🟠 orange = fire right now

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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 a low heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Pădina, Romania, where 24 heat detections have been recorded over the past 48 hours. The low intensity indicates a cooler-burning front for the blaze, which has grown to consume 280 hectares, equivalent to 692 acres.

First breaking out on August 1, 2026, the fire continues to burn actively in a region where the typical fire season spans the warm, dry months, which run roughly from May to October.

In context

This wildfire burned in Romania for 2 days. In total it burned about 230 ha (568 acres) — around 2.3 km².

In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.

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