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Fire danger remans high in the Carolinas, but badly needed rain on the way
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3/27/2025
There's little relief for fire raging in the Carolinas right now, but the last two days of March could bring some much-wanted rain.
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One of the big stories lately has been wildfire activity in the Carolinas and especially in
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the high ground where the growing season starts a little bit later, the dormant vegetation
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from winter, it takes some time to green up.
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Now with that said, we have a much more challenging situation on our hands this spring and probably
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for the next five or six springs, if not longer than that, because there's a lot of dead timber
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that's not going to get any new life.
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A lot of trees have been felled by Hurricane Helene six months ago, so there's a lot of
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extra fuel laying around for fires and again, that dead timber is no longer connected to
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the roots, there's no more moisture coming into the trunks of those dead trees, so that's
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going to be fuel for any additional fire in these areas here, western North Carolina.
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Some of the logging roads may not have been priority number one to open back up either,
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so we've got some issues.
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Now we are seeing modest steps of containment there with the Black Cove fire and the Deep
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Woods fire now between 10 and 20 percent containment.
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Yesterday at this time, they were at zero percent, so those air drops and efforts on
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the ground are proving effective, but we've got a lot of work to do still with the Table
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Rock fire, zero percent containment.
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It's been dry in Florida too, fire danger continues there, so it's not just the Carolinas
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that have been dealing with this.
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We'd love to see some rain.
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Saturday, we're still dry, most of the weekend will be dry in areas east of the mountains.
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Now Sunday's going to look a little bit different, we'll begin to see some moisture stream in,
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but it takes some time before we get there.
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You can see almost all the moisture diverts to the north through Virginia and stays west
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with that strong high pressure system just kind of keeping it at bay.
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Saturday, a couple of sprinkles, I just don't want to count on too much out of this year
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in the fire areas.
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Here we get into late Saturday night, Sunday morning, we'll begin to see some improvements.
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Charleston, South Carolina has been running dry too, less of a fire threat here, but we'll
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begin to see some showers at least on Sunday, a greater chance for stronger thunderstorms
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late Monday in this area.
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