Wildfire near Salcia
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Fire (SWIR)
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Burning near Salcia, Romania, an active 100-hectare (247-acre) wildfire that began on July 30, 2026, continues to progress. Satellites are picking up a low heat signature from the fire front.
In the past 48 hours, monitoring systems have registered 12 heat detections in the surrounding area, tracking the spread of the active blaze.
In context
This wildfire burned in Romania for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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