2026 Carteret County, North Carolina Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
1 2026 Season Fires ▲ +1 vs same period last year
670 2026 Season Acres ▲ +670 vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Carteret County

May 19 Started 670 acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Cadduggen Fire

Largest wildfires in Carteret County this season

670 Acres Slightly smaller than Central Park Cadduggen Fire Atlantic

All 2026 Carteret County Fires · 1 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Carteret 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 Carteret County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Carteret County is listed too, at its Carteret County acres, and is not added to the Carteret County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Carteret 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
Cadduggen Fire May 19, 2026 100% Inactive 670 34.9311, -76.3942 34.9260, -76.3853
Totals 2026 Season Fires 1 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 670

Land cover · Carteret County 2026

Burned acres in Carteret County for the 2026 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 Carteret County % of burned % of Carteret County
Forest 196 29.6% 38.4%
Range (shrubland) 0 0.0% 0.6%
Grassland 457 68.9% 19.2%
Other 10 1.5% 41.9%
Measured acres in Carteret County 663 — —
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Carteret County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Cadduggen Fire 670 663 196 0 457 10 0
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 1 670
Offered to measurement 1 670
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with cells 1 670
Awaiting a perimeter 0 0
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Carteret County 0 0
Measured acres in Carteret County 1 663
Measured acres outside Carteret County — 0
Whole perimeter acres — 663
Reported minus measured — 7
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Carteret County 2026

Burned forest acres in Carteret County for the 2026 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 Carteret County % of burned forest % of Carteret County's forestland
Public 195 99.4% 35.5%
Federal 195 99.4% 4.0%
State 0 0.0% 31.4%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 64.5%
Family 0 0.0% 21.0%
Corporate 0 0.0% 22.7%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 20.9%
Other private 0 0.0% 0.0%
Ownership not modeled 1 0.6% —
Burned forest in Carteret County 196 — —
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Carteret County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Cadduggen Fire 196 195 0 0 0 0 1

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 881 196
Land cover Forest cells 881 196
Equal 881

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🔥 Cadduggen Fire 2026
Started: May 19 670 acre 100% contained
Near Atlantic · Carteret County, North Carolina