Angel Fire Fire Department

10/21/2026

We are working toward a more fire resilient Angel Fire! Complete the short Angel Fire Interest Survey. Your participation can help guide future planning efforts focused on reducing wildfire risks and improving forest health in our communities!

Do you own property in or around Angel Fire? We want to hear from you!

The Cimarron Watershed Alliance (CWA) is gathering information from local landowners to help identify and prioritize potential wildfire risk reduction projects throughout the Angel Fire area.

Your participation can help guide future planning efforts focused on reducing wildfire risks and improving forest health in our communities.

How can you help?

Complete our short Angel Fire Interest Survey! It takes approximately 5–10 minutes, and your responses will help us better understand landowner interest and potential project opportunities.

Take the survey here:
https://www.cimarronwater.org/afcpp

Together, we can work toward a more wildfire-resilient Angel Fire!

Please note: Completing the survey does not guarantee project funding, implementation, or assistance.

10/09/2026

📣Angel Fire Forest Thinning Project📣

Informational meeting:
October 14, 2026 10am-12pm
Angel Fire Community Center, 15 CS Ranch Rd, Angel Fire, NM 87710

10/08/2026

Black Lake Prescribed Burn - Public Tour RSVP

Burn organizers will be hosting a public tour of a prescribed broadcast burn in Black Lake, NM. This will provide an opportunity to see the burn area, hear about safety and how they are mitigating the chance of an escape, learn more about fire ecology and how prescribed fire in the Southwest improves community resilience, and see active prescribed burning operations, including firing and holding (depending on weather and other factors).

The field tour date is weather-dependent and will be scheduled for either late October or November. The tour will likely take place on the Wednesday of the burn week and will likely be scheduled from 10AM to 1PM.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0hiIdW5Ix7s0skrqznJrDPFSjfUpv8uqaLuvIZ-uME9ODBA/viewform

Meeting location: the intersection of HWY 120 and 434, 1 mile northeast of Black Lakes https://maps.app.goo.gl/LUM1yX7qpCTHwLuE6

Contact Forest Guild with questions or comments at (818) 731-5944 or [email protected].

10/06/2026

🚨 Prescribed Burn Notice: Angel Fire, NM 🚨

The Angel Fire Fire Department will conduct weather-permitted pile burns starting as early as Wednesday, October 7, 2026, and continuing through Thursday, October 8, 2026.

What to expect:

🔥 AFFD Transfer Station RX: Approximately 6 piles (10' x 10')
🔥 AFFD Station 3 RX: 4 piles (10' x 10')
💨 Air Curtain Incinerator (ACI): Burning slash

Smoke may be visible in these areas during active operations.

📞 Questions?
Please contact Angelo LeDoux, Engine Boss, at 575-447-1226.

10/06/2026

Dry conifer forests in the Jemez that experience high-intensity fires are not growing back. Instead, the burned areas are converting to a whole different ecosystem of grasses and shrubs.

A new study – published in August by New Mexico researchers – predicts that only 25 percent of those forests may be left in less than 100 years.

This shocking potential for permanent forest loss, and the ways we could work to prevent it, pose questions that require looking both backward and forward in time – questions modern practitioners of dendrochronology are working to answer through the stories of the trees.

🌲 Read the story: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/3ebd1903957c43f1baef9aa3e4b527ea

Plus:

⦁ Hot tip: Cooler weather is here and it’s time to head outside. Drown your campfires, use spark arresters on tools and check weather conditions before burning.
⦁ A recent botany outing discovered a new population of a rare plant in the Sandia Mountains
⦁ A new video game developed by Highlands students turns home hardening virtual! Can you find all the wildfire hazards?
⦁ This month’s wildfire outlook: It gets drier

🌲 Check out this month’s newsletter: mailchi.mp/state/nmfd-october-2026-newsletter-5151890

10/05/2026

10/05/2026

Check out this timelapse! The steel structure over the apparatus bay area coming along. Construction Company Metacero Metal Buildings

09/30/2026

Double Rainbow on display Monday morning as the bay floor cures from an early Saturday morning pour. Crews from Franken Construction Company and Magnum Welding and Construction LLC took full advantage of the break in heavy weekend rain to get the job done. Er****on of the PEMB framing for the 8 door Apparatus Bay scheduled to begin next.
Metacero Metal Buildings

09/28/2026

🚨 Prescribed Burn Notice: Angel Fire, NM 🚨

The Angel Fire Fire Department will conduct weather-permitted pile burns starting as early as Wednesday, September 30, 2026, and continuing through Thursday, October 1, 2026.

What to expect:

🔥 AFFD Transfer Station RX: Approximately 6 piles (10' x 10')
🔥 AFFD Station 3 RX: 4 piles (10' x 10')
💨 Air Curtain Incinerator (ACI): Burning slash

Smoke may be visible in these areas during active operations.

📞 Questions?
Please contact Angelo LeDoux, Engine Boss, at 575-447-1226.