ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN/AP) — The U.S. Southeast grappled Sunday with rising death tolls, a lack of vital supplies in isolated, flood-stricken areas and the widespread loss of homes and property ...

As of 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26 there are currently no wildfire evacuation orders in place for Buncombe County. The wildfire currently burning in the Dix Creek Community in Leicester is ...

As of 8 a.m. on April 2, the statewide burn ban has been lifted, and the Buncombe County local open burning ... being wildfire season in Western North Carolina and the presence of storm debris ...

Asheville-area debris from Tropical Storm Helene was estimated to be around 10 million cubic yards. Officials report it to be closer to a fraction of that.

But fires continue to pop up, as was the case Friday with a 4-acre fire in Garren Creek in Buncombe County that firefighters ... jumping the state line into Transylvania County, North Carolina, it has ...

Multiple wildfires continue to burn in Western North Carolina and ... Black Cove Fire in Polk County was cited as being 17% contained. Chief Dennis Fagnant of the West Buncombe Fire Department ...

ASHEVILLE - Following recent public revisions to the city of Asheville's floodplain policy, Buncombe ... county communities don't have access to all benefits the NFIP provides. Many North Carolina ...

The North Carolina Forest Service said the Black Cove complex fire is the highest-priority fire in the United States.

Buncombe County crews are battling a 15-acre wildfire in the Broad River community on Feb. 28, 2025. The fire is burning south of Black Mountain between Crooked Creek Road and Lavendar Ridge Road ...