Fire Weather Watches in New Mexico
1,876 fire weather watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.
Fire Weather Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 1,876
- Busiest year
- 2011210 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 89over 21 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County595
- San Miguel County588
- Union County578
- Harding County558
- Catron County534
- Otero County525
- Sierra County404
- Sandoval County393
- Grant County390
- Hidalgo County376
- Luna County376
- Doña Ana County374
- Socorro County351
- Bernalillo County318
- Valencia County303
- McKinley County284
- San Juan County284
- Cibola County264
- Rio Arriba County208
- Chaves County147
- Eddy County147
- Lea County128
- Colfax County116
- Mora County116
- Santa Fe County113
- Torrance County109
- Guadalupe County103
- Curry County98
- De Baca County98
- Quay County98
- Roosevelt County98
- Taos County36
- Los Alamos County26
The latest fire weather watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 12:27 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 12 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:50 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | Catron, Grant, Sierra | 32 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:32 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Harding, McKinley, Mora and 6 more | 35 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:09 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 24 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:29 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos and 11 more | 12 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:57 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | EPZ | Catron, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra | 12 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:20 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Cibola, Colfax, Guadalupe, Harding, Los Alamos, McKinley and 9 more | 24 hr |
| Jun 19, 1:12 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Cibola, Los Alamos, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:31 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Bernalillo, Cibola, Guadalupe, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley and 8 more | 46 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:31 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 9 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:44 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Colfax, Harding, Mora, San Miguel, Union | 46 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:33 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | Cibola, McKinley, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Juan | 10 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.