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North Carolina Wildfires: Live Fire Map

8
Active fires
2,721
Acres
2
Under 50% contained
20
Air quality · good statewide
Current situation

North Carolina

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
0
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
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NWS alerts
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North Carolina currently has 8 active wildfires burning a combined 2,721 acres. The biggest is the Rosindale Road fire in Bladen County at 748 acres, 100% contained.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Air quality is good across all 48 monitoring stations in the state right now (typical AQI 20, peak 47).
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Bold outline: North Carolina boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in North Carolina

North Carolina does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

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This season vs the last decade

40% of an average year
Burned so far in 202610K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)25K acres

So far in 2026, 10K acres have burned in North Carolina, 40% of the 25K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in North Carolina

Latest fire updates in North Carolina

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. 1339 Mcmillan Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  2. Quarry Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  3. Jumping Branch Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  4. Rose Hill Bay Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  5. Rosindale Road Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  6. Rose Bay Canal Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · September 17, 2026

  7. Rose Bay Canal Fire · New perimeter mapped at 662 acres (national perimeter feed)

    9 days ago · September 16, 2026

Wildfire history in North Carolina

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 94K acres
103
Fires / year · average
1,339
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
344
Structures destroyed
4
Lives lost
$137.1M
Reported cost

From 566 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
94K
47K
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'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
7.0K
3.5K
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March through May account for 53% of the acreage burned in North Carolina in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
1002002014: 49 fires20142015: 91 fires2016: 200 fires20162017: 93 fires2018: 76 fires20182019: 78 fires2020: 46 fires20202021: 96 fires2022: 110 fires20222023: 127 fires2024: 93 fires20242025: 151 fires2026: 129 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, North Carolina averaged 27K acres burned and 122 fires per year. That is 51% up in acreage and 34% up in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in North Carolina? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in North Carolina

  • Pains Bay20112 structures destroyed45,294 acres
  • Evans Road20084 structures destroyed40,704 acres
  • Juniper Road201131,140 acres
  • Dad201221,331 acres
  • Whipping Creek Road201615,453 acres

Fires near a city in North Carolina

CharlotteAsheville

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)