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Roboré fire, July 2025 Roboré

Out · last detection 2 Aug 2025, 05:15 UTC

The fire started on 11 July 2025 in Roboré, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 23 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 7,647 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 279th largest in Santa Cruz since 2016 (of 834 with a page). Number 23 in Bolivia in 2025, of 94.

Burnt area
7,647ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
23days
11 Jul 2025 – 2 Aug 2025
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
11 Jul
2025
Heat detections
845
in a single hotspot: 62 MW
Danger at start
26
High · FWI index
Energy released
7.4GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

2 Aug 2025
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 11 Jul2 Aug

How it evolved, day by day

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

The weather it burned in

36°high
64km/h · peak gust
28%lowest humidity

It had gone 32 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 21.8 mm on 4 Aug.

This area had burned before

68% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 721 ha in 2018, 909 ha in 2023, 10,720 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 5,172 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Roboré 18,763 inhabitants where it started
    7,684 ha
    1.1 %

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)
11 Jul 31.7 °C 37 % 23 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
12 Jul 31.4 °C 33 % 18 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
13 Jul 31.3 °C 31 % 24 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
14 Jul 32.3 °C 37 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
15 Jul 32.1 °C 39 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
16 Jul 33.6 °C 33 % 47 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
17 Jul 21.5 °C 50 % 44 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
18 Jul 24.1 °C 33 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
19 Jul 28.8 °C 33 % 26 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
20 Jul 31.2 °C 34 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
21 Jul 32.9 °C 36 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
22 Jul 34.1 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
23 Jul 34.2 °C 33 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
24 Jul 34.4 °C 32 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
25 Jul 34.5 °C 32 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
26 Jul 34.8 °C 29 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 40
27 Jul 35.9 °C 28 % 56 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 47
28 Jul 23.1 °C 59 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 25
29 Jul 23.6 °C 51 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
30 Jul 30.6 °C 38 % 30 km/h 0.0 mm High 26
31 Jul 33.4 °C 37 % 55 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
1 Aug 35.7 °C 31 % 59 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
2 Aug 34.9 °C 37 % 64 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 46
3 Aug after 34.1 °C 41 % 48 km/h 0.3 mm High 34
4 Aug after 25.4 °C 74 % 29 km/h 21.8 mm Very low 0

Before and after, from space

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

Before · 4 Jul 2025
After · 9 Aug 2025

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 20 July 2025 the air beside the fire reached 67 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 43: 2.9 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak67 µg/m³
Days over the guideline16 days
PM1068 µg/m³
Optical depth0.61
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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 · 845Every 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

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Roboré fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 11 July 2025 and 2 August 2025: 23 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 7,647 hectares (76.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Roboré (7,684 ha, 1.1 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 35.9 °C, humidity dropped to 28 % and gusts hit 64 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 47, class Very 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.