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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
The story so far
About 10 km north of Robertville.
Summary written on Aug 15, while the fire was still active. It has since ended — the figures above are current.
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active wildfire burning near Robertville, Belgium, which has already consumed 2,030 hectares (5,016 acres) since it started on August 14, 2026. Monitoring systems have detected 81 heat signatures cluster nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current spread and active trajectory of the blaze across the landscape.
This ongoing fire activity occurs squarely within the region's typical fire season, which spans the warm, dry months roughly from May to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in Belgium for 2 days. In total it burned about 1,480 ha (3,657 acres) — around 15 km². That size is an estimate from satellite hotspots, not a measured area.
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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