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Fires Near Las Cruces, NM

Live wildfire tracking around Las Cruces: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

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Fires within 100 mi
96 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Las Cruces, NM

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.
There are currently 78 active fires within 300 miles of Las Cruces, NM, including 2 within 100 miles. None are inside Las Cruces city limits. The most significant is the Dunken fire, 96 miles away at 45 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Las Cruces, NM in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Solano Drive monitor is good (AQI 13).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 3 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 26 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

House pin: Las Cruces, NM. Bold outline: Las Cruces city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

New Mexico does not publish a live evacuation zone feed covering this location yet, so we cannot confirm zone-level status here either way. During an active fire, check the county emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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no fires
≤ 100 mi
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45 acres
≤ 200 mi
9
1,937 acres
≤ 300 mi
78
38K acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 20260 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)572 acres

So far in 2026, 0 acres have burned within 25 miles of Las Cruces, <1% of the 572 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Las Cruces, NM

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Las Cruces

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    38 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  2. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 84%

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

  3. Rim Run Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (TKR806, TKR893)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  4. Flat Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  5. Tusas Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  6. Perch Fire · New perimeter mapped at 58 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  7. Mimms Fire · New perimeter mapped at 7,093 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  8. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  9. Rayado Mesa Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  10. Rio Fire · New perimeter mapped at 147 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

Historic fires near Las Cruces

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

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2022
325,136 acres · 97 mi away

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