With much of Western North Carolina under moderate drought or abnormally dry conditions, wildfires are burning in the region.

The North Carolina Department of Public Safety announced a mandatory evacuation starting at 8:20 p.m. Saturday for parts of Polk County in western North Carolina about 80 miles (128.7 kilometers) west ...

In the most critical of current blazes, three large wildfires are driving evacuations and are uncontrolled in North ...

North Carolina isn't seeing the quantities of fires that South Carolina is, but there are several burning in Western North Carolina not all that far from the Tennessee border. On Sunday ...

Several wildfires are burning in North Carolina as the state is under a burn ban by the Forest Service. Check out the ...

The largest of North Carolina's blazes, the Deep Woods Fire, has burned 2,545 acres in the Green River Gorge area of western North ... Montana, Tennessee, South Dakota and California, the North ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — For months after Hurricane Helene, Interstate 40 has been closed near the Tennessee and North Carolina state line. The corridor was a common route used by travelers and ...

Interstate 40 will reopen Saturday in western North Carolina with some ... reopening with one lane in each direction near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. “We are happy to have this ...

“But watching what the people of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee went through, it feels almost hard for anyone to feel bad for us because they lost so much more.” ...

Even as the flames spread, the fires are much smaller than the worst wildfires in both states' histories. Newsweek reached out to the North Carolina State Climate Office (NCSCO) b ...