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The Rough Ridge fire in the Cohutta Wilderness, believed to have started from a lightning strike October 16, [13] burned almost 11,300 hectares (28,000 acres), making it one of the largest fires ever in Georgia. The Rock Mountain fire was about 4,250 hectares (10,500 acres) and caused the evacuation of Dream Catcher Cove north of Tate City. [14]
The 2016 Chimney Tops 2 Fire burns on a mountainside near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Wildfires are a natural ecological process that has occurred within the Southern Appalachian temperate rainforest for millennia and plays an important role in the Southern Appalachian temperate rainforest ecosystem. [52]
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Over the weekend, fire officials in North Carolina started to get a handle on the Black Bear Fire within the Pisgah National Forest, right off of Interstate 40 near the Tennessee state line.
After moving northeast for one-half mile (0.80 km), rated EF0, it crossed the Tennessee–Kentucky state line near the community of State Line in Fulton County, causing additional tree damage. The total damage caused in Tennessee by the tornado was estimated at $25,000 (2021 USD). [31] Low-end EF4 damage to a business in downtown Cayce
High temperatures will be in the 70s and even near 80 through Thursday (Halloween), which is 15-25 degrees above the historical average for most locations and will challenge daily records in some ...
Wildfire prevention programs around the world may employ techniques such as wildland fire use (WFU) and prescribed or controlled burns. [120] [121] Wildland fire use refers to any fire of natural causes that is monitored but allowed to burn. Controlled burns are fires ignited by government agencies under less dangerous weather conditions. [122]
One of the largest wildfires was the Chimney Tops 2 Fire, which burned more than 10,000 acres, and closed the Chimney Tops Trail. [ 11 ] The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, [ 12 ] as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947 , which killed 16 people in Maine .