Rayado Mesa Fire
The Rayado Mesa Fire was reported on July 27, 2026 in Colfax County, New Mexico and burned 934 acres. It is 100 percent contained. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 934 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 27, 2026
- Personnel
- 58
Radar
Reflectivity now over Rayado Mesa Fire. Open it to see fires and the fire weather outlook on the map.
Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
No perimeter has been mapped for this fire; the map shows its point of origin. Point of origin 36.326, -104.850.
The incident
- Size
- 934 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 27, 2026 at 1:01 PM MDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- 5 Miles SW from Miami, NM
- County
- Colfax County
- State
- New Mexico
- Protecting agency
- SF
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 58
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 3 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1,248,137
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2026-NMN2S-000560
- IRWIN identifier
- 2DF78DFC-471E-4D8D-9E21-F4309881A09E
Weather at the fire
- Wind up to 15 mph from the west
- Relative humidity as low as 16%
- High of 77°F
National Weather Service hourly forecast for the fire’s point of origin, next 24 hours.
Alerts in force
Red Flag Warnings and Fire Weather Watches covering the fire's point of origin.
No Red Flag Warning or Fire Weather Watch is in force at the fire.
Smoke
NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts have not drawn smoke over the fire’s origin today.
NOAA’s smoke model forecasts near-surface smoke at the origin peaking at 0.2 µg/m³ around Mon, 5:00 PM MDT over the next 48 hours.
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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 September 17, 2026 at 12:29 PM MDT. Identifier 2026-NMN2S-000560.