Wildfire near San Javier
Started on Jul 29, 2026.
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Fire (SWIR)
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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 Javier, Bolivia, an active wildfire has scorched 430 ha (1,063 acres) since it began on July 29, 2026. Satellites are picking up a moderate heat signature from the active front, while 17 recent heat detections cluster nearby to trace the spread of the fire.
In context
This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 430 ha (1,063 acres) — around 4.3 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 917,890 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 86% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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