"Additionally, several other wildfires around western North Carolina continue to produce smoke in the region." Meanwhile, Henderson, Polk and Swain counties will be under Code Red, while Rutherford ...

Three wildfires continue to burn Monday across a large portion of western Polk County with little containment. The Black Cove, Deep Woods, and Fish Hook fires have burned a combined 5,754 acres as of ...

The worst wildfires in the country right now are burning in Western North Carolina and the South ... personnel have been battling the blazes in Polk County, where some residents have faced ...

The fire was first reported on March 20, caused by a downed power line. North Carolina remains under a statewide burn ban.

Amid staffing shortages at N.C. Forest Service, inmate firefighters in a state program are battling more WNC wildfires.

Polk County officials lift some evacuation orders ... The National Weather Service says that for all of Western North Carolina, there is an increased fire danger from noon Saturday, March 29 ...

In parts of Polk County, it was hard to tell that just a few miles north of Columbus, some of nearly 500 firefighters from ...

the N.C. Forest Service's Polk County Ranger. “Helene is going to affect wildfires in Western North Carolina for the rest of ...

"The wildfires in western North Carolina continue to grow, so I have expanded our State of Emergency,” Stein said in a statement. “Our State Emergency Response Team is responding with every tool at ...

“Here I am in Polk County, and these folks are experiencing a double whammy.” Gov. Josh Stein speaks to the media about the wildfire situation in Western North Carolina on Thursday, March ...