Otero Fire
The Otero Fire was reported on April 27, 2025 in Socorro County, New Mexico and burned 200 acres. It was declared out on May 27, 2025.
- Size
- 200 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 27, 2025
- Personnel
- 19
Map
Perimeter mapped July 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM MDT, 494 acres (auto-generated for inform). Point of origin 34.072, -106.873.
The incident
- Size
- 200 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM MDT
- Contained
- May 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM MDT
- Controlled
- May 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM MDT
- Declared out
- May 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM MDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- East of Socorro Otero Rd
- County
- Socorro County
- State
- New Mexico
- Nearest city reported
- Socorro
- Protecting agency
- SF
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 19
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 4 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $400,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-NMN3S-000227
- IRWIN identifier
- F9B6B0E3-000D-4C44-A00F-F868025B9FEC
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Socorro, NM covers the area today.
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated July 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM MDT. Identifier 2025-NMN3S-000227.