Wildfires in Chaves County

New Mexico

🔴 3 active fires

Fire-weather risk today

Very high

tomorrow: Extreme · rising ↑

Fires in 2026

17 total since 2026

Area burned 2026

22.0 ha

from official WFIGS perimeters

Air quality now

Good

EAQI 12· PM2.5 2.6 µg/m³ · includes wildfire smoke

Fire-weather and air-quality figures are modelled at state level (cell-33:-105) — not per county. Fire counts, perimeters and areas below are per county, from official records.

Fires by year

First season on record — year-over-year comparisons appear as we accumulate history.

Active fires now

BIG CHERRY Active › DUNKEN Active· 22.0 ha › AMP Active ›

Fire history

BIG CHERRY · Wildfire 19/09/2026 › RED DIRT · Wildfire 14/09/2026· 5 h › WIRE · Wildfire · Human 07/09/2026· 2 h › LONG · Wildfire 30/08/2026· 8 h › JMG · Wildfire · Natural 22/08/2026· 20 h › MATHERS · Wildfire · Natural 22/08/2026· 19 h › QUEMADO · Wildfire · Natural 22/08/2026· 16 h › HOWARD 2 · Wildfire 20/08/2026· 45 h › RED LAKE · Wildfire 20/08/2026· 9 h › GLOBAL · Wildfire 20/08/2026· 4 h › L7 · Wildfire 20/08/2026· 135 h › PLANT · Wildfire 19/08/2026· 47 h › CATO 2 · Wildfire · Natural 16/08/2026· 47 h › ZUBI · Wildfire 26/04/2026· 2281 h › EAST FORK · Wildfire 25/04/2026· 3410 h › DUNKEN · Wildfire 21/04/2026· 22.0 ha › AMP · Wildfire · Human 16/04/2026 ›

Incident records from NIFC/WFIGS (public domain). Fire-weather risk is our own estimate (Canadian FWI on Open-Meteo forecasts), not an official warning — for those see your National Weather Service office. In an emergency call 911.