With much of Western North Carolina under abnormally dry conditions, wildfires are burning in the region. The largest fire in WNC is a nearly 500-acre blaze in Polk County that has required ...

Several of these employees worked on wildfire response and Helene recovery efforts in Western North Carolina, the Citizen ...

ASHEVILLE - Fire departments from across the state and South Carolina have deployed to multiple wildfires burning over 500 acres throughout Western North Carolina. Though specific causes of each ...

dry vegetation due to lack of recent rainfall combined with the dry air will once again result in increased wildfire danger in Upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina." The notice added ...

including a 593-acre fire in Western North Carolina. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster issued a state of emergency. Heavy, low-hanging smoke blanketed parts of the Myrtle Beach area. In North ...

In western North Carolina, near the towns of Tryon and Saluda, a brush fire caused by a power line that fell Saturday along US Highway 176 spread quickly up a nearby mountain and threatened ...

Wildfires in the Western United States are getting bigger, stronger and more frequent than ever before, and prevention efforts aren't keeping up. A new report from from the Property and ...

A state of emergency has been declared in North Carolina as its southern neighbor battles fires in four forests.