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Wildfire near Pozo Ramón

Ended · 1,950 hectares (4,819 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
1,950Hectares4,819Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Sep 28, 2026.

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12Fires · 7d83Hotspots 48h7,100Hectares · 7d
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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 from the active wildfire burning near Pozo Ramón in Argentina, which has already consumed 1,950 hectares (4,819 acres) since it started on September 28, 2026. Monitoring systems have detected 82 heat clusters nearby over the last 48 hours, highlighting the ongoing spread of the front across the area.

This incident unfolds during a broader national fire landscape where 990,020 hectares have burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that sits 76 percent below the two-decade average. While the local typical fire season spans from December to March, this active blaze near Pozo Ramón demonstrates persistent regional fire activity ahead of those peak months.

In context

This wildfire burned in Argentina for 2 days. In total it burned about 1,950 ha (4,819 acres) — around 20 km².

In the Southern Hemisphere the season runs the other way, peaking roughly from November through March.

The bigger picture in Argentina

Across Argentina, roughly 1,003,270 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 76% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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