North Carolina Wildfire Map & Tracker
4 active fires · Updated 4h ago4 active fires
1,358 acres burned
Largest: Rose Bay Canal Fire
Active Wildfires in North Carolina
About North Carolina Wildfire Season
North Carolina's fire season runs in two windows, a spring stretch from mid March to mid April and a fall stretch from late September through early December. Western mountain forests on steep, south facing terrain and eastern peat and organic soils give the state two very different fuel profiles. Unlike most Western states, rainfall in North Carolina is fairly even across the year, so fire risk here comes from a twice yearly window of leaf off canopy exposure rather than any single drought season. Hurricane Helene's 2024 damage left a significant amount of downed timber across the mountains, sharply raising the fuel load in exactly the terrain where the state's fire risk already runs highest.North Carolina Fire Map Today
- Wildfire incident markers. Every active fire in North Carolina is shown with a colored marker. Red means active, yellow means mostly contained, and gray means fully contained or no longer being tracked.
- Incident details and updates. Tap any fire below to see its size, containment percentage, recent updates, and nearby air quality on its own page.
- Automatic updates. This page pulls directly from official incident data and refreshes automatically as conditions change. It is not a live, real time map, and fast moving fires can outpace how often this page updates.
- Full app map. Open the full interactive map to search, explore fires nationwide, and save locations to track over time.