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Wildfires in Sandoval

Sandoval, United States, has had 7 fires with an official perimeter since 2017: 22,657 hectares burned inside the county, 2.4% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 7).

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. Mon 9 Low 14° · 45 % · 34 km/h
  2. Tue 10 Low 14° · 45 % · 41 km/h
  3. Wed 11 Very low 15° · 31 % · 25 km/h
  4. Thu 12 Low 15° · 32 % · 20 km/h
  5. Fri 13 Low 13° · 43 % · 26 km/h
  6. Sat 14 Very low 10° · 67 % · 35 km/h
  7. Sun 15 Very low 9° · 58 % · 44 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. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Sandoval: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

22,657
hectares burned
2.4 %
of the county
7
fires
9,637
km²

How many times has Sandoval burned?

Sandoval has burned 7 times since 2016, in 5 years: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2025. The most recent: Vereda Blanca Fire, August 2025, with 528 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2. 3× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 1× 22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11.   26
7
fires
5
years with fire
22,657
cumulative ha
8 Aug 2025
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 Sandoval

  1. 528 ha Vereda Blanca Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 528 ha in total · 6 days
  2. 18,495 ha Cerro Pelado Fire, April 2022 where it started 1.9% of the county · 18,456 ha in total · 40 days
  3. 414 ha Naranjo Fire, July 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 412 ha in total · 9 days
  4. 1,624 ha Venado Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.2% of the county · 1,621 ha in total · 19 days
  5. 414 ha Deer Creek Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 418 ha in total · 11 days
  6. 602 ha Encino Fire, 18 June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 607 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 581 ha Cajete Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 579 ha in total · 5 days

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).

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