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New Mexico Wildfires: Live Fire Map

6
Active fires
37K
Acres
1
Under 50% contained
24
Typical air quality · worst 59 near South Valley
Current situation

New Mexico

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
2
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
0
FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of New Mexico's 33 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
New Mexico currently has 6 active wildfires burning a combined 36,925 acres. 2 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Line fire in Quay County at 30,144 acres, 100% contained. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in New Mexico in the last 24 hours (1 treated as wildfire), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 29 monitoring stations is good (AQI 24); the worst reading right now is AQI 59 (moderate) near South Valley.
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Bold outline: New Mexico boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

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This season vs the last decade

74% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 2026178K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)241K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)242K acres

So far in 2026, 178K acres have burned in New Mexico, 74% of the 241K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 242K acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

Active fires in New Mexico

Latest fire updates in New Mexico

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

  1. Brantley 2 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    13 days ago · October 28, 2026

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

    20 days ago · October 21, 2026

  3. Beehive Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    22 days ago · October 19, 2026

  4. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    32 days ago · October 9, 2026

  5. Whiskey Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    32 days ago · October 9, 2026

  6. Mccauley Springs Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    35 days ago · October 6, 2026

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

    40 days ago · October 1, 2026

  8. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    50 days ago · September 21, 2026

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

    56 days ago · September 15, 2026

  10. Whiskey Fire · Mapped size revised down to 432 acres (from 542)

    56 days ago · September 15, 2026

  11. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 48%

    57 days ago · September 14, 2026

  12. Whiskey Fire · Grew 83 acres in 24 hours to 542 acres

    57 days ago · September 14, 2026

Wildfire history in New Mexico

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2022
Worst year · 925K acres
1,022
Fires / year · average
13K
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
1,455
Structures destroyed
1
Lives lost
$739.7M
Reported cost

From 1,051 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
925K
462K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
62K
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April and May account for 57% of the acreage burned in New Mexico in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
8221.6K2014: 511 fires20142015: 625 fires2016: 1.1K fires20162017: 841 fires2018: 1.3K fires20182019: 888 fires2020: 1.1K fires20202021: 1.0K fires2022: 984 fires20222023: 1.3K fires2024: 913 fires20242025: 1.1K fires2026: 1.6K fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, New Mexico averaged 318K acres burned and 1,187 fires per year. That is 135% up in acreage and 29% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in New Mexico? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in New Mexico

  • Hermits Peak2022341,735 acres
  • Black2022325,136 acres
  • Whitewater-Baldy201220 structures destroyed297,845 acres
  • Las Conchas2011112 structures destroyed156,593 acres
  • Donaldson20119 structures destroyed101,563 acres

Fires near a city in New Mexico

AlbuquerqueSanta FeLas CrucesRuidoso

Nearby states

California (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (29)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)