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Maní fire, 10 February 2026 Maní

Out · last detection 12 Feb 2026, 19:00 UTC

The fire started on 10 February 2026 in Maní, Colombia, and satellites saw it burning for 3 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,362 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 14th largest in Casanare since 2016 (of 65 with a page). Number 29 in Colombia in 2026, of 159.

Burnt area
3,362ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
3days
10 Feb 2026 – 12 Feb 2026
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
10 Feb
2026
Heat detections
59
in a single hotspot: 39 MW
Danger at start
14
Moderate · FWI index
Energy released
563MW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

12 Feb 2026
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 10 Feb12 Feb

How it evolved, day by day

101112

Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

35°high
51km/h · peak gust
40%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 10.0 mm on 15 Feb.

This area had burned before

44% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 993 ha in 2016, 420 ha in 2021, 15 ha in 2022, 72 ha in 2023.

What happened to each town

  1. Maní where it started
    3,384 ha reached on 10 Feb
    0.9 %

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)
10 Feb 34.9 °C 42 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
11 Feb 34.7 °C 42 % 51 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 18
12 Feb 35.3 °C 40 % 39 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 16
13 Feb after 35.4 °C 37 % 27 km/h 0.0 mm Moderate 14
14 Feb after 31.7 °C 58 % 22 km/h 0.8 mm Low 8
15 Feb after 32.6 °C 57 % 28 km/h 10.0 mm Very low 1

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 3 Feb 2026
After · 19 Feb 2026

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 · Copernicus

On 9 February 2026 the air beside the fire reached 40 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 22: 1.5 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak40 µg/m³
Days over the guideline8 days
PM1040 µg/m³
Optical depth0.60
89101112131415
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

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 · 59Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Maní fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 10 February 2026 and 12 February 2026: 3 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 3,362 hectares (33.6 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Maní (3,384 ha, 0.9 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.3 °C, humidity dropped to 40 % and gusts hit 51 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 18, class Moderate.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Colombia (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: 123 · 119

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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 ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)). 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.