New Mexico’s largest fire has grown in fits and starts.
Published Jun 4, 2012
Lightning ignited a wildfire in Gila National Forest on June 7, 2013.
Published Jun 11, 2013
Dense smoke billows from the White Fire, a large forest fire burning in southern New Mexico, in this true-color image from April 3, 2011.
Published Apr 4, 2011
Two drought-fueled wildfires blazed on June 1, 2013, in northern New Mexico. About 81 percent of the state was experiencing extreme or exceptional drought.
Published Jun 4, 2013
A wildfire burning in Los Padres National Park charred more than 500 acres—including the home of Big Sur’s fire chief.
Published Dec 17, 2013
Smoke streams east from a fire in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in this true-color image from June 14, 2011.
Published Jun 14, 2011
The Whitewater-Baldy wildfire is the largest on record in New Mexico.
Published May 30, 2012
The blaze is the largest in Arizona this year and the largest in the United States right now.
Published Jun 16, 2020Image of the Day Heat Land Fires Human Presence Remote Sensing
Taken an hour and a half after the Las Conchas Fire started in the mountains southwest of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on June 26, this image shows the large wildfire well underway.
Published Jun 27, 2011
