Wildfire near San José de Chiquitos (Jul 22 · SW)
Started on Jul 22, 2026.
Bolivia today7 days
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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 San José de Chiquitos, Bolivia, an active wildfire spanning 280 hectares (692 acres) continues to be monitored after igniting on July 22, 2026.
Satellites are picking up a low heat signature from the active front, alongside 20 thermal detections clustered nearby over the past 48 hours.
In context
This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 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 892,946 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 86% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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