Baures fire, August 2026 Baures
The fire started on 27 August 2026 in Baures, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,417 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
It is the 252th largest in Beni since 2016 (of 902 with a page). Number 15 in Bolivia in 2026, of 68.
- Burnt area
- 7,417ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 27 Aug 2026 – 1 Sept 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 27 Aug
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 150
- in a single hotspot: 62 MW
- Danger at start
- 32
- High · FWI index
- Energy released
- 1.1GW
- sum of detected power
Where it burned
How it evolved, day by day
Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.
The weather it burned in
It had gone 7 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 1.2 mm on 4 Sept.
This area had burned before
94% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 3,089 ha in 2016, 10 ha in 2017, 4,501 ha in 2018, 323 ha in 2019, 1,023 ha in 2020, 1,166 ha in 2021, 567 ha in 2022, 2,727 ha in 2023, 232 ha in 2025. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 6,951 ha that had burned before.
- 3,940 ha Baures fire, September 2018 12,161 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 232 ha Baures fire, August 2025 13,324 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 73 ha Baures fire, September 2019 5,625 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5 ha Baures fire, September 2018 4,104 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
What happened to each town
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7,462 ha reached on 27 Aug0.4 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
The weather day by day
ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug | 36.2 °C | 36 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 28 Aug | 35.8 °C | 40 % | 43 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 32 |
| 29 Aug | 36.3 °C | 39 % | 37 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 30 Aug | 36.9 °C | 36 % | 29 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 28 |
| 31 Aug | 36.7 °C | 36 % | 40 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 33 |
| 1 Sept | 37.3 °C | 35 % | 40 km/h | 0.1 mm | High 34 |
| 2 Sept after | 36.0 °C | 39 % | 33 km/h | 0.5 mm | High 32 |
| 3 Sept after | 37.2 °C | 34 % | 31 km/h | 0.0 mm | High 31 |
| 4 Sept after | 36.1 °C | 39 % | 31 km/h | 1.2 mm | High 21 |
Before and after, from space
Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.
If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.
The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 1 September 2026 the air beside the fire reached 102 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 68: 4.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.
Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)
Detections table · 150Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
|---|
Other fires nearby
Frequently asked questions
- How long did the Baures fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 27 August 2026 and 1 September 2026: 6 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
- How much area did it burn?
- The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 7,417 hectares (74.2 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered Baures (7,462 ha, 0.4 %).
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 37.3 °C, humidity dropped to 35 % and gusts hit 43 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 34, class High.
- Where does this data come from?
- From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Bolivia (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.
Where to verify it
A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.
Emergency number: 119 · 110
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Where this data comes from
The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM3 (Public Domain). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.