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Fires Near Ruidoso, NM

Live wildfire tracking around Ruidoso: 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
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Ruidoso, 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 14 active fires within 300 miles of Ruidoso, NM, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Ruidoso city limits. The most significant is the Brantley 2 fire, 91 miles away at 712 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Ruidoso, NM in the past 12 hours.
Air quality at this location is good (AQI 47).

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

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Fires by distance

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712 acres
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2,054 acres
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38K acres

This season vs the last decade

15% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026881 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)6.0K acres

So far in 2026, 881 acres have burned within 25 miles of Ruidoso, 15% of the 6.0K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Counts fires that started within 25 miles, at their full size.

Active fires near Ruidoso, NM

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Ruidoso

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

  1. Old Deer Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  2. Brantley 2 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026

  3. Line Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1,202 acres (national perimeter feed)

    20 days ago · October 21, 2026

  4. Beehive Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    22 days ago · October 19, 2026

  5. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    32 days ago · October 9, 2026

  6. Whiskey Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    32 days ago · October 9, 2026

  7. Mccauley Springs Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    35 days ago · October 6, 2026

  8. Whiskey Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (T883)

    40 days ago · October 1, 2026

  9. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    50 days ago · September 21, 2026

  10. Whiskey Fire · Grew 105 acres in 10 hours to 537 acres

    56 days ago · September 15, 2026

Historic fires near Ruidoso

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Donaldson
2011
101,563 acres · 25 mi away
Peppin
2004
64,488 acres · 23 mi away

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