By Andrew Hay

MORA, New Mexico (Reuters) -Three muddy torrents rage through Victoria Lovato’s northern New Mexico ranch when it rains hard, born of the state’s biggest ever wildfire that burned through mountains above her land over three years ago.

It is this kind of deadly, post-wildfire flooding making homes unlivable and knocking out infrastructure such as roads and water treatment plants across the Western United States as climate change makes blazes burn larger areas of land at higher temperatures.

Ranch dogs run alongside Lovato’s red GMC truck, as she, her husband Ismael and their 11-year-old daughter Mia drive north over a high mountain valley ringed by torched trees after the 2022 Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon Fire.

Lovato, 41, points to the “nuked” mountains above her 52-acre ran

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