Hundreds of acres have burned in Henderson County, NC, as 75 structures are jeopardized, while a blaze in Cherokee County is burning 2,100 acres.
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Officials have declared a state of emergency in a western North Carolina community where a wildfire has burned hundreds of acres, some structures and now is threatening dozens of homes. Crews are fighting several separate blazes in forested areas of Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky as wide swaths of those states face moderate to severe drought condition s and warmer than normal temperatures.
Other parts of the U.S. are seeing unseasonably warmer temperatures and dry conditions this week. The Dallas-Fort Worth area saw highs in the 80s, about 10 degrees warmer than average. Milder weather also stretched into the Midwest, where Wichita, Kansas, was seeing temperatures stretch toward 70 degrees Fahrenheit . A cold front creeping into the Central and Southern Plains later in the week was expected to push highs down to normal for this time of year.
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