A ban on all open burning in North Carolina will be lifted as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 2. A statewide ban went into effect ...

The Alarka Five Fire has now burned 1,515 acres and remains at 37% containment, according to Swain County Emergency ...

Stay up to date with the location and size of fires with our North Carolina wildfire and smoke map. The map is interactive, ...

The fires, which started in Polk County, have now spread into ... to work directly along the fire’s edge. North Carolina officials published a new map showing the evacuation zones in Polk ...

Firefighters made progress over the weekend battling major wildfires in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate ...

"The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our State of Emergency,” Stein said in a statement. “Our State Emergency Response Team is responding with every tool at ...

"The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our State of Emergency,” Stein said in a statement. “Our State Emergency Response Team is responding with every tool at ...

Wildfires continue to rage in Western North Carolina and the South Carolina Upstate. Stay with the Citizen Times Saturday for live updates.

In parts of Polk County, it was hard to tell that just a few miles north of Columbus, some of nearly 500 firefighters from North Carolina and other states were battling wildfires that spread to ...

A reminder that our interactive fire map is updated hourly and shows the ... on Deep Woods fire in Polk County The Deep Woods Fire in Polk County is currently the largest fire in Western North ...

According to the N.C. Forest Service wildfire map, by 8:48 ... around western North Carolina continue to produce smoke in the ...