This the twelfth annual report in a series Southwest wildfire season overviews available from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium and the Ecological Restoration Institute. This overview provides a concise summary of the 2024 fire season and facilitates comparisons with past fires and fire seasons. It follows the format of past years’ overviews and describes the impacts of ten wildfires, each over 10,000 acres, in Arizona and New Mexico. As in previous overviews, this report covers when each fire burned, fire management costs, vegetation types, previous wildfires in the area, and burn severity, where available. The conclusion section summarizes these same characteristics for the large wildfires in the region and discusses how fires burned in proximity to human communities. Fire season overview reports provide a unique opportunity to compare fires and fire seasons, which highlight trends and changes as managers and communities adapt to climate change.
Fires covered in the Overview: Wildcat Fire, Indios Fire, Antone Fire, South Fork Fire, Freeman Fire, Black Fire, Sand Stone Fire, Skeleton Fire, West Fire, and Siphon Fire.