Wildfire
Started on Jul 28, 2026.
True color
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).
Satellites are picking up an intense heat signature from the active Wildfire in sk, which has been burning since July 28, 2026. The blaze has scorched 280 hectares, equivalent to 692 acres.
Orbiting sensors have registered 11 thermal detections near the perimeter over the last 48 hours, illustrating the current spread of the fire.
In context
This wildfire burned in Slovakia for 2 days. In total it burned about 280 ha (692 acres) — around 2.8 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
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