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New Mexico Wildfires: Live Fire Map

77
Active fires
37K
Acres
33
Under 50% contained
22
Typical air quality · worst 52 near Desert View
Current situation

New Mexico

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
5
New fires (48h)
2
Dispatch reports (24h)
1
NWS alerts
0
New Mexico currently has 77 active wildfires burning a combined 37,289 acres. 5 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, all of them at or above 50%. The biggest is the Frijoles fire in Santa Fe County at 15,956 acres, 90% contained. 2 new fires have been discovered in the past 48 hours. Dispatch centers have logged 1 new fire report in New Mexico in the last 24 hours (1 smoke check), 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 28 monitoring stations is good (AQI 22); the worst reading right now is AQI 52 (moderate) near Desert View.
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Bold outline: New Mexico boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in New Mexico

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

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This season vs the last decade

76% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026183K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)240K acres

So far in 2026, 183K acres have burned in New Mexico, 76% of the 240K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. 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. Tusas Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

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

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  7. Whiskey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  8. Rayado Mesa Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

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

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

  10. Rio Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

  11. Mogote Ridge Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    10 days ago · September 16, 2026

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

    10 days ago · September 15, 2026

Wildfire history in New Mexico

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2022
Worst year · 925K acres
1,019
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
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
62K
31K
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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
8031.6K2014: 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 319K acres burned and 1,180 fires per year. That is 139% up in acreage and 28% 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 (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)Washington (40)