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Fires Near Santa Fe, NM

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

45
Fires within 100 mi
16 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
16
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Santa Fe, NM

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • The nearest fire is 16 miles away but mostly contained.
There are currently 94 active fires within 300 miles of Santa Fe, NM, including 3 within 25 miles and 45 within 100 miles. None are inside Santa Fe city limits. The most significant is the Frijoles fire, 16 miles away at 15,956 acres, 90% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 1 new fire report within 30 miles of Santa Fe, NM; the nearest, a smoke check, is 30 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Santa Fe, NM in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Santa Fe Airport monitor 9 miles away is good (AQI 16).
Early signal: fresh dispatch activity nearby. Dispatch centers logged 1 new fire report within 30 miles in roughly the last 12 hours; the nearest, a smoke check, is about 30 miles away. These logs usually appear minutes after the first 911 call, often before a fire is officially listed. Turn on the Dispatch reports layer on the map below and zoom in to see each one.

House pin: Santa Fe, NM. Bold outline: Santa Fe 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
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
3
16K acres
≤ 50 mi
23
17K acres
≤ 100 mi
45
21K acres
≤ 200 mi
82
193K acres
≤ 300 mi
94
201K acres

This season vs the last decade

3025% of an average year
Burned so far in 202616K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)530 acres

So far in 2026, 16K acres have burned within 25 miles of Santa Fe, 3025% of the 530 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Santa Fe, NM

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Santa Fe

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

  1. Basura Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N751BR)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  2. Aspen Acres Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N3804C)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  3. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    41 hours ago · September 24, 2026

  4. Frijoles Fire · Containment rose to 84%

    2 days ago · September 23, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  6. Flat Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  7. Tusas Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  10. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

Historic fires near Santa Fe

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Hermits Peak
2022
341,735 acres · 30 mi away
Las Conchas
2011
156,593 acres · 35 mi away
Ponil Fire
2002
92,194 acres · 81 mi away

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