Wildfire near Красногвардейское сельское поселение
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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 a low heat signature from an active wildfire spanning 150 hectares (371 acres) near Красногвардейское сельское поселение, Russia, with six recent heat detections clustered nearby. The fire, which started on July 23, 2026, continues to burn in the region.
In context
This wildfire burned in Russia for 2 days. In total it burned about 150 ha (371 acres) — around 1.5 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Russia
Across Russia, roughly 7,374,511 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 49% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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