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North Carolina Wildfires: Live Fire Map

AQI 38Good typical air quality, worst 103 near W OWEN SCH
Current situation

North Carolina

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FireNearby does not have a live evacuation feed for any of North Carolina's 100 counties, so evacuation orders and warnings there will not appear here. Check local official emergency channels for notices.
No active wildfires are currently reported in North Carolina. Conditions can change quickly during fire season, so the live map above stays current if anything ignites.
No fire weather alerts are in effect for the state right now. Typical air quality across the state's 30 monitoring stations is good (AQI 38); the worst reading right now is AQI 103 (unhealthy for sensitive groups) near W OWEN SCH.
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No active fires in North Carolina right now.

Bold outline: North Carolina boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in North Carolina

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This season vs the last decade

43% of normal for Nov 10
Burned so far in 202610K acres
10-year average by Nov 10 (2016–2025)23K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)26K acres

So far in 2026, 10K acres have burned in North Carolina, 43% of the 23K acres an average year from 2016 to 2025 had burned by Nov 10. A full average year burned 26K acres.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Fires that cross a state line are split by their mapped perimeter.

Active fires in North Carolina

No active wildfires reported right now.

Wildfire history in North Carolina

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2016
Worst year · 95K acres
104
Fires / year · average
1,347
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
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47K
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Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
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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: 137 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, North Carolina averaged 27K acres burned and 124 fires per year. That is 52% up in acreage and 36% 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 (119)Oregon (42)Wisconsin (30)Minnesota (28)Kentucky (24)South Carolina (24)