Wildfire near Puerto Casado
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from an active wildfire burning near Puerto Casado, Paraguay, with twelve heat detections registered in the past 48 hours indicating how far the fire has spread across the landscape. The active blaze has consumed 300 hectares, equivalent to 741 acres, since it started on September 2, 2026.
This incident unfolds during Paraguay's typical fire season, which generally spans the southern summer from roughly November to March. Meanwhile, the broader national landscape shows a different trend, with 537,238 hectares burned so far in 2026, marking a figure that is 82% below the two-decade average.
In context
This wildfire has been burning in Paraguay for 2 days. So far it has affected roughly 330 ha (815 acres) — about 3.3 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 Paraguay
Across Paraguay, roughly 537,238 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 82% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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