OLD FORT, N.C. — Firefighters continue to make progress against the North Fork Fire in McDowell County, which is now 65% ...

Rain wasn’t enough to extinguish the fire, and flames continued “in areas of extreme hurricane damage,” U.S. Forest Service ...

Fire crews were able to contain the rest of the remaining 220-acre wildfire in the Crooked Creek community in McDowell County ...

The Crooked Creek fire in McDowell County is now 100% contained. The fire has burned about 220 acres in total since breaking ...

This response was yet another testament to the collaboration and dedication of emergency responders across western North ...

A viewer shared a video of the fire spreading around several homes three miles south of Old Fort. In the North Carolina mountains, gusts topped 60 mph causing hundreds of outages in Ashe County.

The evacuation orders given by the McDowell County Office of Emergency Management were lifted Jan. 30 after an 'out of control' wildfire burned 220 acres.

The Crooked Creek fire in Old Fort burned 220 acres through the ... McDowell County said the fire was likely fed by high winds while North Carolina Rep. Dudley Greene, a Republican who represents ...

A wildfire that McDowell County Emergency Management called “out of control” erupted in the western North Carolina ...

Wildfires have spread in McDowell County, North Carolina, an area already struggling to recover from Hurricane Helene.