Hicks Cemetery Fire
The Hicks Cemetery Fire was reported on March 1, 2025 in Haywood County, North Carolina and burned 194 acres. It was declared out on March 17, 2025.
- Size
- 194 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- March 1, 2025
- Personnel
- 44
Map
Perimeter mapped December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM EST, 194 acres (auto-generated for inform). Point of origin 35.728, -83.030.
The incident
- Size
- 194 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- March 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM EST
- Contained
- March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT
- Controlled
- March 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM EDT
- Declared out
- March 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM EDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- Buzzard Roost Road FS#288
- County
- Haywood County
- State
- North Carolina
- Nearest city reported
- Waynesville
- Protecting agency
- USFS
- Jurisdiction
- USFS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 44
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 4 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Hardwood Litter
- Estimated cost to date
- $250,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-NCNCF-250075
- IRWIN identifier
- 19D9A685-5E4A-4786-81BF-0F3FBF906255
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Cove Creek, NC covers the area today.
Nearby
- Cove Creek, NC8 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Lake Junaluska, NC14 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Maggie Valley, NC15 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Clyde, NC15 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- West Canton, NC16 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Waynesville, NC17 miles south of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM EST. Identifier 2025-NCNCF-250075.