New Mexico
New Mexico wildfire map today
Active wildfires in New Mexico right now, the share of New Mexico homes in the wildland-urban interface, and where to find official information. In a typical year, wildfire activity in New Mexico builds through the spring and peaks in late spring and early summer, then eases once the summer monsoon arrives in July. The list and counts come from the federal wildfire feed; the WUI figures come from the SILVIS Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The active-fire data refreshes every 15 minutes.
17
Active wildfires
81,796 ac
Total acres
Fire data updated 13 minutes ago
Last updated
Active fires in New Mexico now
- Line
- SEVEN CABINS
- Mimms
- Sparks
- Hummingbird
- Trigg
- BRANTLEY 2
- SIX MILE
- Black Mesa Trail
- Antelope
Homes in the wildland-urban interface
About 68% of New Mexico’s homes sit inside the wildland-urban interface — roughly 640,000 of 941,000 statewide, according to the SILVIS Lab’s 2020 dataset. The share varies sharply by county: from about 41% in Albuquerque’s Bernalillo County to about 96% in Santa Fe County.
The five New Mexico counties with the most homes in the wildland-urban interface:
- Bernalillo County
- Santa Fe County
- Doña Ana County
- Sandoval County
- San Juan County
Being in the interface is a description of geography, not a forecast of fire — it captures how close a building sits to vegetation that can burn. These classifications change slowly; the figures here come from the SILVIS Lab’s most recent revision of the 1990–2020 dataset, released February 2025.
Official New Mexico sources
- New Mexico Forestry Division — emnrd.nm.gov/sfd
- New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management — dhsem.nm.gov