Wildfire near Sovetsky District (Jul 22)
True color
Fire (SWIR)
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True color (left): as the eye sees it.
Infrared / SWIR (right): sees through smoke.
🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
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).
An active wildfire spanning 130 ha (321 acres) has been burning in the Sovetsky District of Russia since July 22, 2026. Satellites are currently picking up an intense heat signature from the burning front, with 11 heat detections clustering nearby in the past 48 hours to indicate how far the fire has spread.
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