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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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Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Ruidoso, NM

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 30 miles away.
There are currently 87 active fires within 300 miles of Ruidoso, NM, including 4 within 100 miles. None are inside Ruidoso city limits. The most significant is the Sunset fire, 30 miles away at 145 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 32).

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.

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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190 acres
≤ 100 mi
4
325 acres
≤ 200 mi
62
36K acres
≤ 300 mi
87
45K 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.

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. 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. Swiss Roll Fire · Containment rose to 36%

    6 days ago · September 20, 2026

  10. Rayado Mesa Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 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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