Smoke from fires in Patagonia, Argentina, can be seen in the mountain valleys in this true-color corrected reflectance image captured on Jan. 8, 2026, from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard the Terra platform. Overlaid on the image are orange dots indicating the presence of a fire or thermal anomaly occurring within a 1km x 1km pixel.
The fires began on Monday, Jan. 5. The fires in the northern portion of the map have burned through thousands of hectares of forest in Chubut Province, near Puerto Patriada. Fires are also burning south of Chubut, around the Los Alerces National Park. These fires have been exacerbated by high temperatures, strong winds, and drought conditions.
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