Northcutt Fire

Curry County, New Mexico · Wildfire

Contained Official numbers updated Sep 2, 2026 (14 days ago)

First reported about 6 months ago

Metric	Last report	Now	Change
Size	—	300 acres Sep 16, 4:00 AM	—
Containment	—	100% Sep 16, 4:00 AM	—
Crew size	—	11 Sep 16, 4:00 AM	—
Money spent	—	$0 Sep 16, 4:00 AM	—

Northcutt Fire summary

The Northcutt Fire is a wildfire near Curry County, New Mexico. It has burned about 300 acres (about 227 football fields). Crews have it fully contained, with a line all the way around it. It was first reported about 6 months ago. About 11 people are on it, run by a Type 5 IC. We're also tracking 8 other active fires within about 75 miles.

Size: 300 acres
Containment: 100%
Discovered: March 30, 2026 (first reported about 6 months ago)
Cause: Not reported

The size and containment above are current as of Wednesday, September 16th at 4:00 a.m. CDT.

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Weather & fire-spread conditions

No Red Flag Warning. The National Weather Service hasn't flagged this area for dangerous fire-spread conditions right now.

Hot, dry, and windy weather can help a fire grow; cool, calm, or wet weather helps crews. The tags below rate each day for fire spread — green is calm, red can push a fire.

A general fire-weather guide (wind matters most, then how dry it is, then heat), not a prediction of what this fire will do.

Overnight

61°F · Chance Showers And Thunderstorms

Wind 5 to 10 mph SE · 65% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Rain likely

Wednesday

86°F · Isolated Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny

Wind 5 to 15 mph S · 15% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Warm Dry

Wednesday Night

60°F · Partly Cloudy

Wind 5 to 15 mph S · 10% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry

Thursday

87°F · Sunny

Wind 10 to 20 mph S · 1% chance of rain

Wind: Windy Heat: Warm Dry

Thursday Night

62°F · Partly Cloudy

Wind 10 to 15 mph S · 2% chance of rain

Wind: Breezy Heat: Cool Dry

Forecast from the National Weather Service (weather.gov), pulled Wednesday, September 16th at 4:01 a.m. CDT.

Could this fire move fast?

Weather isn't the only thing that changes how a fire moves. The ground matters too: how steep it is, and what's growing on it. These four numbers are for the exact spot where this fire started, not the whole fire. A big fire crosses a lot of different ground.

2° slope

Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill. Heat and flame lean uphill, drying out the ground above the fire before it gets there.

0% tree canopy cover

The more tree cover above a fire, the easier it is for the fire to climb from the ground into the treetops. That's called a crown fire. Crown fires move faster, throw embers farther ahead of the fire, and are harder for crews to stop head-on.

4,499 ft elevation

Elevation by itself doesn't make a fire more or less dangerous. But it shapes the other three numbers here: what grows there, how dry things get, and what the weather does.

Elevation and slope from the USGS 3D Elevation Program; fuel type and canopy cover from LANDFIRE (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), pulled Thursday, September 10th at 4:03 p.m. CDT.