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Wildfire near Alhandra

204 hectares burned at Alhandra — Loures is 17 km away, Portugal. The fire burned between July 29, 2026 and August 26, 2026. On Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10-meter resolution — roads and even houses are visible at this scale.

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burned area204 ha
that is2 km²
how big is that?≈ 286 football pitches
resolution10 m
images27
countryPortugal
whenJuly 29, 2026
nearest settlementAlhandra
known city nearbyLoures · 17 km

Before and after

Drag the slider or click anywhere on the image. Arrow keys work too. Any two dates can be compared — pick below which one to show on the left and which on the right.

The area after the fire, August 29, 2026
The area before the fire, July 27, 2026
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before · 2026. 07. 27.
after · 2026. 08. 29.

The whole period, image by image

27 cloud-free Sentinel-2 images between June 29, 2026 and September 10, 2026. The orange outline is the burned area measured by Copernicus EMS.

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What does this image series show?

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite pair passes over the same area every two to three days, capturing the surface at a native 10-meter pixel size. This crop is 7 km wide, so we sized it to 10-meter pixels — the 204-hectare burn scar fits in one view and the detail survives.

The before/after slider shows a difference that took only days to appear. On the fresher images the fire may still be actively burning — smoke partly covers the scar, and the direction of the plume shows the wind.

Why is this better than the daily satellite map? The daily NASA layers on the main map are 250-meter composites: excellent at showing where and when fire burned, but not the detail. Sentinel-2 is far sharper — the trade-off is a revisit only every 2–3 days, and only cloud-free passes are usable.

Data, reuse and liability

Satellite imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026, via the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem. Burned-area outline and size from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service / EFFIS-GWIS (CC BY 4.0). Hotspot detections: NASA MODIS and VIIRS.

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