Much of North Carolina will reach “extreme” fire danger levels over the next several days, according to a state tracking tool ...

Crews are battling a wildfire in the Broad River community on Friday, Feb. 28. A statement from Buncombe County Government ...

The NWS Blacksburg VA issued a fire weather watch at 1:56 p.m. on Friday in effect until Saturday at 8 p.m. The watch is for ...

A 52-acre wildfire in McDowell County is now 90% contained, the U.S. Forest Service says. The fire is burning in a area hit ...

A second wildfire has erupted in western North Carolina's McDowell County, an area that was ravaged by Hurricane Helene just four months ago, nearly to the day, officials said. The fire ...

Some Western North Carolina U.S. Forest Service employees who were fired in a dramatic purge of federal workers have had ...

The wildfire, named the Crooked Creek Fire, ignited near the town of Old Fort, which was impacted by Hurricane Helene last September.

Rain wasn’t enough to extinguish the fire, and flames continued “in areas of extreme hurricane damage,” U.S. Forest Service officials said.

Despite the monumental deluge Helene dumped on the region in late September and the catastrophic flooding, officials have warned about elevated wildfire risks.

A wildfire that McDowell County Emergency Management called "out of control" erupted in the western North Carolina town of Old Fort on Wednesday, just four months after the area was ravaged by ...

“They had just seen flooding across the landscape, and then, because it dried out so quickly, they started seeing wildfire concerns,” said Corey Davis, North Carolina’s assistant state ...