A NASA Earth-observing satellite has snapped a photo of the huge wildfire chewing up vast swathes of southwestern New Mexico. The Whitewater-Baldy fire, which was sparked by a lightning strike on ...

image: Two large fires are raging in parts of New Mexico's Gila National Forest: The Baldy and Whitewater fires. Both are generating a lot of smoke, as seen by NASA's Terra satellite. The Moderate ...

GILA NATIONAL FOREST – The Black Fire has broken another record this fire season and burned more acreage than the 2012 Whitewater-Baldy Fire, making it the second largest wildfire in New Mexico ...

The Whitewater-Baldy fire stood as the largest wildfire in New Mexico history until last month when it was surpassed by the ongoing Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in northern New Mexico.

surpassing the Whitewater-Baldy Fire, which burned 297,845 acres in southern New Mexico in 2012. The fire is the largest in a series of wildfires to rip through New Mexico this spring, fueled by ...

Craig Allen, left, of the U.S. Geological Survey, consults a map with research ecologist José Iniguez while touring the Whitewater-Baldy Complex burn area. New Mexico’s Gila National Forest is ...

The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire in New Mexico is close to searing itself into the history books. As of Tuesday morning, the fire was about 5,000 acres away from a record as the state’s largest ...

SANTA FE, New Mexico (Reuters ... the mountains of southwestern New Mexico and this week became the largest wildfire in the state’s history. The Whitewater-Baldy Complex fire has grown ...

Previously the largest wildfire in New Mexico History, this blaze began when lightning struck near Mogollon Baldy and the headwaters o Whitewater Creek near Glenwood in May 2012. The fire ...