Wildfire smoke creates fine particulate matter that can linger in the atmosphere and spread from coast to coast. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in large quantities ...

The active fire is 30 percent contained. On Monday, it covered 1,600 acres, but it has since grown to nearly 2,060 acres. SCFC Director of Communications Doug Wood told Newsweek that a fire of that ...

Follow wildfire updates in North and South Carolina, where blazes erupted over the weekend. The largest stemmed from a forest fire near Myrtle Beach.

With much of Western ... 3. Fires also are burning in Macon and Haywood counties in WNC. Stay up to date with the location and size of fires with our North Carolina wildfire and smoke map.