Started on Aug 29, 2026.
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Green: vegetationBrown: already burnedOrange: fire right nowSentinel-2 · Copernicus
Red dots: heat detected by satellite in the last 48h. NASA FIRMS
Quick facts
- Location
- 40 miles northwest of Tucumcari, NM
- Cause
- Natural
- People working on it
- 26 people
- Complexity
- Type 4 IncidentOfficial scale from 5 to 1: a Type 1 is the most complex in the country.
- What's burning
- Brush (2 feet)
- How it's behaving
- MinimalSmoldering — Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
- Jurisdiction
- Private land
Glossary: what each term means
Barely moving. Low, thin smoke.
Burning without flame, in the ground or in roots. Can flare up days later.
Moves slowly, hugging the ground.
Spreads with low, steady flames.
Spreading evenly and steadily, with visible flame.
Fast and unpredictable.
Runs along the ground much faster than a person walks.
Grows along the sides, not head-on.
Moves against the wind or downhill, which makes it slower.
Climbs into the treetops and jumps crown to crown. It can't be attacked from the ground.
Climbs into the crowns in bursts and drops back down.
Whole trees flaring up like torches.
Single scattered trees flaring up whole, like torches.
Whole clumps of trees flaring at once.
Wind carries embers through the air and starts new fires ahead of the front: that is how a fire jumps a road or a firebreak.
The wind pushes it in long runs in one direction.
The ones marked ● are the behaviors that make a fire harder to stop. They are not a warning or an instruction: they are the description written by the agency in charge. For decisions, always follow your emergency services.
Burning across private land in San Miguel County, the 4V Fire near Trementina, New Mexico, has reached 100 percent containment after a five-day run that burned an estimated 200 acres per day. The natural-start blaze, which began on August 29, ultimately charred 1,000 acres roughly 40 miles northwest of Tucumcari. Current fire behavior on the incident is reported as minimal and smoldering within two-foot brush fuels.
A Type 4 Incident management team oversaw the response, utilizing 26 personnel to bring the fire to full containment while accumulating total costs of $50,000. Despite this activity, the wider landscape reflects a quieter year for fire activity: 3,172,718 hectares have burned across the country so far in 2026, marking a total that sits 42 percent below the two-decade average during a typical fire season that spans from June to October.
In context
This wildfire burned in New Mexico for 17 days. In total it burned about 1,000 acres — around 4.0 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 3,375,552 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 38% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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