2026 Catron County, New Mexico Wildfires

0 Active Fires

0 Acres Burning

4 2026 Season Fires ▼ -3 (-43%) vs same period last year

23,747 2026 Season Acres ▼ -59,320 (-71%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Catron County

Jul 26 Started 401 acres 308 football fields Johnson Fire

Jun 21 Started 9,861 acres 1.9x the size of JFK Airport 8.2x the size of Lincoln Park Sacaton Fire

Jun 9 Started 7,769 acres 9.2x the size of Central Park 53% the size of Manhattan Bear Fire

Apr 20 Started 5,716 acres About the size of JFK Airport 6.8x the size of Central Park Hummingbird Fire

Largest wildfires in Catron County this season

9,861 Acres 1.9x the size of JFK Airport 8.2x the size of Lincoln Park Sacaton Fire Reserve

7,769 Acres 9.2x the size of Central Park 53% the size of Manhattan Bear Fire Reserve

5,716 Acres About the size of JFK Airport 6.8x the size of Central Park Hummingbird Fire Reserve

401 Acres 308 football fields Johnson Fire Silver City

All 2026 Catron County Fires · 4 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Catron County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Catron County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Catron County is listed too, at its Catron County acres, and is not added to the Catron County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Catron County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire	Start date	Containment	Status	Acres	Center	Ignition point
Sacaton Fire	Jun 21, 2026	100%	Inactive	9,861	33.3160, -108.6315	33.2690, -108.6756
Bear Fire	Jun 9, 2026	100%	Inactive	7,769	34.0326, -108.2709	34.0590, -108.2030
Hummingbird Fire	Apr 20, 2026	100%	Inactive	5,716	33.3784, -108.5865	33.3549, -108.6587
Johnson Fire	Jul 26, 2026	100%	Inactive	401	33.2471, -108.4662	33.2389, -108.4889
Totals	2026 Season Fires 4	Active Fires 0	Acres Burning 0	2026 Season Acres 23,747

Land cover · Catron County 2026

Burned acres in Catron County for the 2026 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

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Forest ownership · Catron County 2026

Burned forest acres in Catron County for the 2026 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.

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Burn severity · Catron County 2026

Burned acres in Catron County for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.

This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.

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