Skip to content
worldfires
en
US · United States · New Mexico

Wildfires in Lea

Lea, United States, has had 12 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 22,361 hectares burned inside the county, 2.0% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Tue 27 Very low 22° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  2. Wed 28 Very low 24° · 57 % · 35 km/h
  3. Thu 29 Very low 22° · 60 % · 31 km/h
  4. Fri 30 Very low 18° · 67 % · 36 km/h
  5. Sat 31 Very low 21° · 55 % · 34 km/h
  6. Sun 1 Very low 23° · 61 % · 44 km/h
  7. Mon 2 Very low 21° · 48 % · 71 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

22,361
hectares burned
2.0 %
of the county
12
fires
11,417
km²

How many times has Lea burned?

Lea has burned 12 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2022. The most recent: 380 May Fire, May 2022, with 724 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 2× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 6× 18
  4.   19
  5. 1× 20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10.   25
  11.   26
12
fires
5
years with fire
22,361
cumulative ha
4 May 2022
most recent

Fires larger than 400 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in United States →

Fires that entered Lea

  1. 724 ha 380 May Fire, May 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 720 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 2,427 ha 380 Friday Fire, April 2022 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,406 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 695 ha West 380 Fire, January 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 686 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,212 ha Frier Fire, May 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,198 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 7,869 ha Lea fire, 17 April 2018 where it started 0.7% of the county · 7,802 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 427 ha Pierson Fire, April 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 428 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 4,094 ha Lea fire, 12 April 2018 where it started 0.4% of the county · 16,287 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 1,851 ha Good Fire, March 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,834 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 889 ha Querecho Fire, March 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 889 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 916 ha Crossroads West Fire, February 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 909 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 456 ha Dean Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 460 ha in total · 1 day
  12. 801 ha Soldier Hill Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 802 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from MTBS (USGS and USDA Forest Service) and NIFC, in the public domain; county boundaries come from geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

Tell me what burns here

New fires in this area by RSS: paste the link into your reader, no email needed.

Follow by RSS