Wildfire near Santa Rosalía
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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 Santa Rosalía, Colombia, an active wildfire spanning 200 hectares (494 acres) has been tracked since July 24, 2026. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature, reflecting the high radiative power of the advancing front.
The scale of the spreading front is underscored by eight heat signatures detected in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours.
In context
This wildfire burned in Colombia for 4 days. In total it burned about 200 ha (494 acres) — around 2.0 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 966,988 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 54% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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