In the map below, you can see active incidents in the area marked as red, with active incidents in McDowell County. The full data is available at the North Carolina Forest Service website.

"Nearly five months after Hurricane Helene ravaged this area of western North Carolina, so many communities are in rubble," Ray said. "Aluminum is strewn everywhere, trees are on top of businesses ...

As parts of western North Carolina are still devastated from Helene, a wildfire erupted on Wednesday near Black Mountain and Old Fort. US probes release of arrested immigrant in first challenge to ...

A fall drought could put western North Carolina at extreme wildfire risk ... they outcompete species endemic to the area. But if an invasive species doesn’t tolerate fire well, prescribed ...

RALEIGH N.C. (WNCT) — Governor Josh Stein invites North Carolinians to participate in the development of an Action Plan to address housing and economic hurricane recovery needs in Western ...

POLK COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) — Sunday was Groundhog Day, and the question of 6 more weeks of winter or an early spring was answered across the country, including in western North Carolina.

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 ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. – At least three wildfires ignited near North Carolina towns that were devastated by Hurricane Helene. As of Thursday, the Crooked Creek Fire in McDowell County burned an ...

by WLOS Staff TOPICS: OLD FORT, N.C. (WLOS) — Just a few months after the area was ravaged by Hurricane Helene, an "out of control" wildfire in the western North Carolina town of Old Fort ...

MCDOWELL COUNTY, N.C. (WSPA) — Firefighters are continuing to work to put out a more than 600-acre wildfire in McDowell County. According to the National Forest Service, the North Fork Fire ...

HICKORY, N.C. — Dozens of FEMA homes and travel trailers sit empty near Hickory Regional Airport, while over 2,700 families remain in motels in western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene.

ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4IN ARE ALSO EXPECTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. LIGHTER SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 1 TO 3IN ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE ACROSS ...