Wildfire near San Juan del Cesar
Started on Jul 22, 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).
An active wildfire spanning 100 hectares (247 acres) has been burning in Colombia near San Juan del Cesar since July 22, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up a moderate heat signature from the active front, alongside four thermal detections clustered in the area over the past 48 hours.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colombia for 2 days. In total it burned about 100 ha (247 acres) — around 1.0 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 Colombia
Across Colombia, roughly 973,272 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 53% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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