Ruidoso Resilience: How a community is recovering a year after deadly flooding

Ruidoso Resilience: How a community is recovering a year after deadly flooding

RUIDOSO, N.M. (KVIA) -- It's been two years since wildfires scorched areas surrounding the Village of Ruidoso high in the Sierra Blanca mountains. Just a year ago this week, heavy rains on those burned areas sent runoff rushing down the Rio Ruidoso -- causing deadly flash flooding. Three people died, including two children. Flooding also caused tens of millions of dollars in damage. ABC-7's Andrew J. Polk went back to some of the hardest-hit are…

Ruidoso forges ahead in uncertainty after catastrophe

Richard ConnorPublisher, El Rito Media Cowboy boots, now sad and forlorn, stand sentinel, upright in the closet, no longer walking. The boots are a grimy, grim reminder of that dreadful day, July 8, 2025, when the camera-toting wearer watched, frightened and dumbstruck, as the screaming Rio Ruidoso churned with rage, unleashing brutish force and violent terror. The worst flood in Ruidoso’s present history. Stationed along the river’s banks at an…

Locals say Ruidoso is back in business, while state relief dollars are on the way in a year after devastating flood

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From fires to floods: How the Ruidoso wildfires caused historic flooding; Beyond the Forecast

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – In 2024 the Salt Burn and South Fork fires prompted a mass evacuation of the village of Ruidoso. Two out of the three exits were closed off as 30,000 vehicles left town. In this episode of Beyond the Forecast KRQE Chief Meteorologist Grant Tosterud and Meteorologist David Burgett recall the events that [...]