Burned area
satellite only5,472ha
Perimeter published by GWIS (Copernicus).
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus)
- Date
- 30 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026
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BO · Bolivia · –
San Joaquín fire, 30 October 2026 San Joaquín
Dying down · last detection 4 Nov 2026, 18:13 UTC
The fire started on 30 October 2026 in San Joaquín, Bolivia, and satellites saw it burning for 6 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 5,472 hectares from heat detections, spread across a single municipality.
Number 25 in Bolivia in 2026, of 82.
GWIS near-real-time perimeter, from the layer that changed in October 2025: this fire is not compared with fires from earlier years, because since then the GWIS layer gives more and larger perimeters.
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Duration by satellite
satellite only6days
From 30 Oct 2026 to today: still being detected.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- last detection: 4 Nov 2026, 18:13 UTC
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Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
Start
satellite only30 Oct 2026
First day with fire seen by the satellites or the perimeter.
- Source
- GWIS (Copernicus) · NASA FIRMS · VIIRS
- Date
- 30 Oct 2026
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No official record is matched to this page, so the alert time and the cause are not known here.
Hotspots
satellite only137
VIIRS detections at 375 m. Most intense hotspot: 54 MW.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (Suomi NPP + NOAA-20)
- Date
- 30 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026
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There is no official record to compare with. Each hotspot is a pixel detected in one satellite pass, not a separate fire.
The worst day
satellite only877MW
Total radiative power on 4 November 2026; hotspots that day: 77.
- Source
- NASA FIRMS · VIIRS (FRP)
- Date
- 4 Nov 2026
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Fire radiative power (FRP) measures the energy the fire gives off when the satellite passes. Added up by day, it compares intensity, not area.
Danger at the start
model7.2FWI · low
Fire Weather Index (Canadian system) computed by WorldFires for the day the fire started. Consecutive days without rain before: 4.
- Source
- WorldFires calculation (Canadian FWI system)
- Date
- 30 Oct 2026, local noon
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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This is an index computed from weather model data, not a measurement of the fire nor an official warning. Danger warnings are issued by each country’s authority. Emergency number and official warnings
Weather during the fire
model36.4°C · 43% RH
High of 36.4 °C and minimum humidity of 43% on 4 November 2026; gusts of 41 km/h on 4 November 2026.
- Source
- weather model at the fire’s grid cell
- Date
- 30 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026
- Model
- ECMWF IFS 0,25° · Open-Meteo.com · provisional
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These are model values for a cell of about 25 km, not from a weather station: they may differ from what was measured on the ground.
This page’s change log has been kept since 4 November 2026: every night what it publishes is compared and the difference is logged. Anything earlier is reconstructed from each source’s date and marked as reconstructed.
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logPage published (3,742 ha).
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· reconstructed weatherWeather and FWI computed from the forecast (provisional until ERA5 arrives)
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· reconstructed GHSLPopulation and built-up area computed
What was saved on 4 November 2026
Every night a snapshot of what the page shows is saved. If anything changes, it appears in the list as a log entry.
- Area
- 3,742 ha
- Dates
- 30 Oct 2026 – ongoing
- Name
- San Joaquín
- Official record
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Versioned permanent link
https://worldfires.org/en/fire/san-joaquin-2026-10-2?v=2026-11-04A version keeps the area, dates, name and official record; the area as it was logged (changes under 2% are not logged). The map, hotspots and weather always show today’s data.
Citation
A lede of about 60 words figures only, no adjectives
CSV for this fire san-joaquin-2026-10-2.csv · daily, no individual hotspots
| fecha | focos_viirs | frp_mw | tmax_c | tmin_c | hr_min_pct | viento_max_kmh | racha_max_kmh | precip_mm | fwi | clase_fwi | dentro_del_incendio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | 0 | 0 | 31.1 | 22.3 | 56 | 10.9 | 22.3 | 0.4 | 7.2 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-10-31 | 0 | 0 | 32.9 | 23.3 | 55 | 12.9 | 22.7 | 0.8 | 7.5 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-11-01 | 13 | 170 | 34.5 | 24.6 | 52 | 15 | 34.9 | 0.5 | 10.8 | bajo | 1 |
| 2026-11-02 | 9 | 139 | 34.5 | 25.9 | 52 | 14.8 | 33.5 | 0.1 | 11.6 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-11-03 | 38 | 570 | 35.5 | 26 | 40 | 14.3 | 30.2 | 0.5 | 15.2 | moderado | 1 |
| 2026-11-04 | 77 | 877 | 36.4 | 27 | 43 | 17.5 | 40.7 | 0 | 17.4 | moderado | 1 |
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Sources for this page: GWIS (Copernicus), NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), ECMWF IFS · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), GHSL (JRC). Open-Meteo.com · How we build fire pages: methodology
Is it still active?
No detections since 4 Nov 2026, 18:13 UTC. That usually means no flame is visible from space any more, although hotspots may remain. Satellites pass a few times a day and cloud or smoke can hide the fire: a lack of detections is not an official extinction. Each country’s emergency service declares a fire contained or out.
- Burnt area
- 5,472ha
- GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
- Duration
- 6days
- 30 Oct 2026 – 4 Nov 2026
- Municipalities hit
- 1
- municipalities
- Started on
- 30 Oct
- 2026
- Heat detections
- 137
- in a single hotspot: 54 MW
- Danger at start
- 7
- Low · FWI index
- Average daily power
- 439MW
- detected power per day, on average
The next 72 hours
The wind is blowing from the north and pushing southwards; no sharp shifts are expected until Sun 8, 02:00.
ECMWF IFS 0.25° at the centre of the fire · computed 5 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC
Thu 5, 07:00, local time
First useful rain: 3.5 mm in 6 h
Chance of rain up to 35 % in those hours. It can slow the fire at the surface, but that does not mean it will go out.
Checked, no warning: no wind shifts of more than 60° nights recover humidity (peaks of 92 % or more)
Hour by hour, local time
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Mean wind
Gusts
where it blows to
Relative humidity
Night (8 pm to 8 am)
Rain (mm) · chance in %
Where is it blowing? The next 48 h
geoBoundaries/GeoBolivia (Public Domain)
At this hour
Places the fan reaches
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or tap the mapThis is not an official warning. It is a global model forecast with cells of about 25 km, at the centre of the fire: it cannot see valley winds or the winds the fire itself creates. The fan shows where the wind blows, not where the fire will spread. If in doubt, follow what the authorities say.
Emergencies · Bolivia 119 · 110 Emergency number and official warningsForecast: ECMWF IFS 0.25° (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts), served by our own Open-Meteo instance; the chance of rain comes from the ECMWF ensemble. Variables: wind and gusts at 10 m, wind at 850 hPa, relative humidity and temperature at 2 m, rain. Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
Fire: GWIS / Copernicus (reconstructed from VIIRS) (CC BY 4.0); hotspots from the last 24 h: VIIRS from NASA FIRMS. Boundaries: geoBoundaries/GeoBolivia (Public Domain).
How it is worked out: wind shift = a change of more than 60° in 6 h or less, with at least 15 km/h before and after; no overnight recovery = peak humidity between 8 pm and 8 am stays below 55 %; useful rain = 2 mm or more in 6 h. The fan opens 18° plus however much the wind varies within ±3 h and reaches 25 km beyond the edge of the fire: one model cell, not a rate of spread. Methodology
Where it burned
HOTSPOTS BY DAY
30 Oct4 Nov
4 Nov 2026
How it evolved, day by day
30 Oct
1 Nov
4 Nov
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
41km/h · peak gust
40%lowest humidity
It had gone 4 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.
This area had burned before
65% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 70 ha in 2016, 3,572 ha in 2020, 2,567 ha in 2022, 64 ha in 2023, 2,255 ha in 2024. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 3,571 ha that had burned before.
- 2,066 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2020 86,960 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 1,018 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2024 3,778 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 973 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2022 46,026 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 125 ha San Joaquín fire, August 2024 3,134 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 64 ha San Joaquín fire, July 2016 8,169 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
- 5 ha San Joaquín fire, July 2022 8,692 ha in total; the hectares shown are those it shares with this fire
How big is it?
London boundary: geoBoundaries · Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0).
Paris boundary: geoBoundaries · Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F) (Etalab Open License 2.0).
Madrid boundary: geoBoundaries · Open Data ESRI, IGN Central Registry of Cartography Area (CC BY 4.0).
Berlin boundary: geoBoundaries · Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (dl-de/by-2-0).
This compares size, not location: both shapes are at the same scale, north up, centred on each other.
What happened to each town
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5,512 ha reached on 30 Oct0.6 %
Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance runs from the point marking the centre of each area to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.
People and buildings inside the perimeter
GHSL 2025Built-up area0.10 ha
Residents< 20
Inside the perimeter there were about 0.10 hectares of built-up land and almost nobody lived there (GHSL 2025, satellite-based estimate).
This is an estimate on 100 m cells, made from satellite imagery and census data: it does not mean that homes burned or that anyone was harmed. The perimeter also contains land that never burned. The GHSL 2025 epoch is a projection made from 2020 and earlier data.
Source: Global Human Settlement Layer (GHS-BUILT-S and GHS-POP R2023A), European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), © European Union, CC BY 4.0. Sum inside the perimeter computed by WorldFires. human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu
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) · forecast models, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives
| Day | High | Min. humidity | Peak gust | Rain | Danger (FWI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct | 31.1 °C | 56 % | 22 km/h | 0.4 mm | Low 7 |
| 31 Oct | 32.9 °C | 55 % | 23 km/h | 0.8 mm | Low 8 |
| 1 Nov | 34.5 °C | 52 % | 35 km/h | 0.5 mm | Low 11 |
| 2 Nov | 34.5 °C | 52 % | 34 km/h | 0.1 mm | Moderate 12 |
| 3 Nov | 35.5 °C | 40 % | 30 km/h | 0.5 mm | Moderate 15 |
| 4 Nov | 36.4 °C | 43 % | 41 km/h | 0.0 mm | Moderate 17 |
Before and after, from space
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Before · 23 Oct 2026
After · 4 Nov 2026
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The smoke
CAMS · CopernicusOn 28 October 2026 the air beside the fire reached 40 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 21: 1.4 times the WHO daily guideline (15).
PM2.5 peak40 µg/m³
Days over the guideline2 days
PM1041 µg/m³
Optical depth0.75
WHO 15
28 Oct30 Oct1 Nov3 Nov
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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 · 137Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
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Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
| Date and time | Satellite | FRP (MW) | Lat | Lon |
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Frequently asked questions
- How long did the San Joaquín fire last?
- GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 30 October 2026 and 4 November 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 5,472 hectares (54.7 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
- Which municipalities burned?
- The fire only entered San Joaquín (5,512 ha, 0.6 %).
- Is the San Joaquín fire still active?
- No fire detections since 4 Nov 2026, 18:13 UTC. A lack of detections is not an official extinction.
- What was the weather like?
- During the fire the temperature reached 36.4 °C, humidity dropped to 40 % and gusts hit 41 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 17, class Moderate.
- What weather is expected at the fire over the next 72 hours?
- The wind is blowing from the north and pushing southwards; no sharp shifts are expected until Sun 8, 02:00. First useful rain: 3.5 mm in 6 h (Thu 5, 07:00). Times are local time at the fire. ECMWF IFS forecast (Open-Meteo) computed 5 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC; this is not an official warning.
- 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 · Emergency number and official warnings
Satellite cross-check
History of this page · 1 Changes in area, dates, name, official record or merged pages, compared every night since 4 November 2026.
- Page published (3,742 ha).
RSS Changes to this page With cross-checks and a citable version
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This page is built from satellite data and official records, and it sometimes gets things wrong: the wrong dates, the wrong town, two fires merged into one, or something that was not a wildfire at all. If you know this fire first-hand (you live nearby, saw it, fought it or reported on it), tell us what really happened and we will check it.
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How we know this
- Perimeter: GWIS (Copernicus), rebuilt from heat detections rather than mapped on imagery.
- Dates from the perimeter: the VIIRS detections inside it did not change them. 137 Suomi-NPP VIIRS detections on those dates.
- We have not matched this page with any official record.
- Weather: ECMWF IFS model, provisional until the ERA5 reanalysis arrives.
- Built-up area and population come from the JRC Global Human Settlement Layer (epoch 2025, 100 m cells), summed inside the perimeter: an estimate of what was there, not a damage count.
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.