Wildfire near San Ignacio de Velasco (Jul 24 · SE)
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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).
Burning near San Ignacio de Velasco, Bolivia, an active wildfire spanning 280 hectares (692 acres) that started on July 24, 2026, is currently exhibiting an intense heat signature according to satellite observations.
Monitoring systems have detected 14 heat signatures clustered nearby over the past 48 hours, illustrating the current scale and activity of the fire front.
In context
This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 4 days. In total it burned about 280 ha (692 acres) — around 2.8 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 Bolivia
Across Bolivia, roughly 883,024 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 86% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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