2025 North Carolina Wildfires
Newest wildfires in North Carolina
Largest wildfires in North Carolina this season
All 2025 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAOE LEAD | Graham | Apr 17, 2025 | 57% | Inactive | 3,103 | 35.3760, -83.9400 | — |
| 2025 Bee Rock Creek Fire - NCNCF | McDowell | Apr 16, 2025 | 94% | Inactive | 2,085 | 35.7990, -82.1080 | — |
| Rattlesnake Branch | Haywood | Mar 28, 2025 | 26% | Inactive | 1,843 | 35.4140, -82.8140 | — |
| Black Swamp Fire | Jones | Apr 30, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 950 | 34.8630, -77.1140 | — |
| Roanoke River Fire | Bertie | Nov 17, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 579 | 35.9435, -77.1079 | 35.9455, -77.1015 |
| Mocr Southwest Fy2025 Rx Fire | Pender | Apr 7, 2025 | — | Inactive | 32 | 34.4574, -78.1107 | 34.4582, -78.1104 |
| King Mountain Fire | Randolph | Dec 23, 2025 | — | Inactive | 10 | 35.5177, -79.9543 | 35.5073, -79.9528 |
| Rector Road Fire | Buncombe | Nov 16, 2025 | — | Inactive | 9 | 35.6719, -82.4690 | — |
| Wayah Depot Fire | Macon | Nov 16, 2025 | — | Inactive | 0 | 35.1650, -83.5094 | 35.2122, -83.6180 |
| Totals | 2025 Season Fires 9 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2025 Season Acres 8,611 |
Land cover · North Carolina 2025
Burned acres in North Carolina 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.
Forest ownership · North Carolina 2025
Burned forest acres in North Carolina 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.
Burn severity · North Carolina 2025
Burned acres in North Carolina for the 2025 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.