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Wildfire near San José de Chiquitos (Jul 31)

Ended · 300 hectares (741 acres) · Started · Updated

This fire in numbers3 days
300Hectares741Acres3Days it lasted

Started on Jul 31, 2026.

Bolivia today7 days
4Fires · 7d44Hotspots 48h1,770Hectares · 7d
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Wildfire near San José de Chiquitos (Jul 31) — Sentinel-2 true color Wildfire near San José de Chiquitos (Jul 31) — Sentinel-2 SWIR (fuego) True view Fire view
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Fire view (right): infrared (SWIR), sees through smoke and brings out the heat.

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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus

Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS

Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from an active wildfire near San José de Chiquitos, Bolivia, where 33 thermal detections over the past 48 hours trace the spread of the front. The blaze has consumed 300 hectares (741 acres) since it started on July 31, 2026, burning through the landscape during the dry season.

This incident unfolds within a broader national context where 550,600 hectares have burned so far in 2026, tracking 91% below the two-decade average for Bolivia.

In context

This wildfire burned in Bolivia for 2 days. In total it burned about 300 ha (741 acres) — around 3.0 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 941,964 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 85% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.

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