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Wildfire near Rast

Ended · 330 hectares (815 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
330Hectares815Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Jul 29, 2026.

Wildfire near Rast — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near Rast — 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

Burning near Rast, Romania, an active wildfire has scorched 330 hectares, or 815 acres, since it started on July 29, 2026.

Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from the front, alongside 15 recent heat detections clustered nearby.

In context

This wildfire burned in Romania for 2 days. In total it burned about 330 ha (815 acres) — around 3.3 km².

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

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