2025 Buncombe County, North Carolina Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2025 Season Fires
9 2025 Season Acres

Newest wildfires in Buncombe County

Nov 16 Started 9 acres 7 football fields Rector Road Fire

Largest wildfires in Buncombe County this season

9 Acres 7 football fields Rector Road Fire Weaverville

All 2025 Buncombe County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Buncombe County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Buncombe County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Buncombe County is listed too, at its Buncombe County acres, and is not added to the Buncombe County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Buncombe County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire Start date Containment Status Acres Center Ignition point
Rector Road Fire Nov 16, 2025 Inactive 9 35.6719, -82.4690
Totals 2025 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 9

Land cover · Buncombe County 2025

Burned acres in Buncombe County for the 2025 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

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Acres by cover type Acres in Buncombe County % of burned % of Buncombe County
Forest 9 100.0% 73.4%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.1%
Grassland 0 0.0% 11.6%
Other 0 0.0% 15.0%
Measured acres in Buncombe County 9
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Buncombe County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Rector Road Fire 9 9 9 0 0 0 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 9
Offered to measurement 1 9
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 9
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Buncombe County 0 0
Measured acres in Buncombe County 1 9
Measured acres outside Buncombe County 0
Whole perimeter acres 9
Reported minus measured 0
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Buncombe County 2025

Burned forest acres in Buncombe County for the 2025 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.

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Burned forest by owner Forest acres in Buncombe County % of burned forest % of Buncombe County's forestland
Public 0 0.0% 23.0%
Federal 0 0.0% 10.9%
State 0 0.0% 0.6%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 11.5%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 9 100.0% 77.0%
Family 2 17.1% 49.8%
Corporate 8 82.9% 22.1%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 5.1%
Ownership not modeled 0 0.0%
Burned forest in Buncombe County 9
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Buncombe County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Rector Road Fire 9 0 0 0 0 9 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 41 9
Land cover Forest cells 41 9
Equal 41

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🔥 Rector Road Fire 2025
Started: Nov 16 9 acre