Sunset RD Fire
The Sunset RD Fire was reported on May 2, 2025 in Brunswick County, North Carolina and burned 1,331 acres. It is 100 percent contained. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 1,331 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- May 2, 2025
- Personnel
- 1
Map
Perimeter mapped May 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM EDT, 1,331 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 34.023, -78.078.
The incident
- Size
- 1,331 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- May 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
- Cause
- Human
- Location
- 2.7 Miles west of Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal
- County
- Brunswick County
- State
- North Carolina
- Nearest city reported
- Boiling Springs Lakes
- Protecting agency
- DFR
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 1
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC, Type 5 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Southern Rough
- Estimated cost to date
- $860,385
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-NCNCS-250055
- IRWIN identifier
- AE8896B7-8861-4611-85F8-280BF571DD40
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from May 4, 2025 (1,369 acres) to May 8, 2025 (1,331 acres). The largest one-day growth was 1,329 acres, mapped May 6, 2025.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2025 | 1,369 | |
| May 5, 2025 | 0 | -1,369 |
| May 6, 2025 | 1,329 | +1,329 |
| May 8, 2025 | 1,331 | +2 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Boiling Spring Lakes, NC covers the area today.
Nearby
- Boiling Spring Lakes, NCUnder a mile northeast of the fire’s origin
- Saint James, NC7 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Southport, NC8 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Long Beach, NC8 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Oak Island, NC9 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Kure Beach, NC10 miles east 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 June 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM EDT. Identifier 2025-NCNCS-250055.