Wildfire near Solomenskoye
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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 in the Sovetsky District of Russia, an active wildfire spanning 180 hectares (445 acres) has been tracked since July 22, 2026. Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active front, underscoring the severity of the blaze.
Mapping systems have registered 13 heat detections in the surrounding area over the past 48 hours, illustrating the extent to which the heat has spread.
In context
This wildfire burned in Russia for 2 days. In total it burned about 180 ha (445 acres) — around 1.8 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in Russia
Across Russia, roughly 7,374,511 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 49% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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