2026 North Carolina Wildfires
Newest wildfires in North Carolina
Largest wildfires in North Carolina this season
All 2026 North Carolina Fires · 9 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in North Carolina. 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 the border is listed with the acres that burned in North Carolina, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into North Carolina is listed too, at its North Carolina acres, and is not added to the North Carolina fire counts.
| Fire | County | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cadduggen Fire | Carteret | May 19, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 670 | 34.9311, -76.3942 | 34.9260, -76.3853 |
| Rose Bay Canal Fire | Hyde | Jun 2, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 667 | 35.4785, -76.3427 | — |
| Jumping Branch Fire | McDowell | Mar 29, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 420 | 35.7333, -82.1407 | — |
| Tarkiln Ridge Fire | Clay | Mar 23, 2026 | 90% | Inactive | 407 | 35.1093, -83.8461 | 35.1077, -83.8445 |
| Poplar Fire | Mitchell | Mar 23, 2026 | 100% | Inactive | 350 | 36.1037, -82.3403 | 36.0990, -82.3414 |
| Winding Stair A Fire | Macon | Feb 9, 2026 | 85% | Inactive | 250 | 35.1328, -83.5251 | 35.1225, -83.5429 |
| Fox Gap Fire | Swain | Mar 25, 2026 | 30% | Inactive | 112 | 35.4610, -83.8630 | 35.4743, -83.9155 |
| Flat Rattlesnake Fire | Macon | Apr 16, 2026 | — | Inactive | 35 | 35.0946, -83.2307 | 35.0913, -83.2176 |
| Mop Fy26 Northeast Rx And Savannah Unit Rx Fire | Pender | Mar 19, 2026 | — | Inactive | 17 | 34.4580, -78.1110 | — |
| Totals | 2026 Season Fires 9 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2026 Season Acres 2,928 |
Land cover · North Carolina 2026
Burned acres in North Carolina 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.
Forest ownership · North Carolina 2026
Burned forest acres in North Carolina 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.
Burn severity · North Carolina 2026
Burned acres in North Carolina for the 2026 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.
Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.
This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.