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Email: 2025.tablerockcomplex@firenet.gov 

Table Rock Fire
Size:     13,287 acres

            12,652 acres (SC)
            635 acres (NC)
Containment: 30 percent
Fire Start Date: March 21, 2025
Cause: Human-caused        

The Table Rock Complex fire received around 1.5 inches of rain over the last two days, significantly reducing fire activity.  The dry conditions today provide an opportunity for firefighters at the Table Rock Fire to make good progress on extinguishing hotspots and securing control lines. Firefighters will continue constructing control lines along the fire’s edge in North Carolina and the northeastern edge in South Carolina. Air operations will utilize unmanned aircraft to map hotspots near the fire’s edge so firefighters can strategically extinguish burning material. Firefighters will continue to build containment lines along the eastern edge of the fire near Raven Cliffs.

Persimmon Ridge Fire

Size: 2,078 acres
Containment: 74 percent
Fire Start Date: March 22, 2025
Cause: Human-caused

The Persimmon Ridge fire has ceased growth and will remain in its current footprint.  Today’s drying weather will allow firefighters to utilize heavy equipment on the eastern edge of the fire, which was heavily impacted by Hurricane Helene. Crews will break up large, downed trees to reduce the amount of fuel available to burn. 

Weather and Fire Behavior:  Today, sunny conditions will be observed across the fire area after two days and an inch and a half of rain.  Temperatures will reach the low 70s with relative humidity near 30 percent. Winds will be light and out of the northwest, shifting to the southwest later this afternoon. These drying conditions will precipitate an increase in smoke from both fires as heavy debris within the fire perimeter continues to smolder. 

Closures/Evacuations: All mandatory evacuations in Greenville County have been reduced to voluntary. All voluntary evacuations in Pickens County have been lifted. No evacuations are in place for Transylvania County, NC.

Burn Ban: A burning ban remains in effect for Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Horry counties in South Carolina - all outdoor burning prohibited - including yard debris burning, prescribed burning, campfires, bonfires, and other recreational fires in all unincorporated areas of South Carolina. The ban has been lifted for the rest of South Carolina.  A statewide ban on open burning remains in place for all counties in North Carolina.

SC Firefighter Mobilization (SC State Fire) Resources: All remaining SC Firefighter Mobilization resources are planned to demobilize today. SC State Fire will continue to have a SC-HART crew on standby as a means to provide rapid extraction of an injured wildland crew member, if needed. The Palmetto IST will remain at the incident for as long as SC-HART and our Mobile Command Center is needed.

Command: The Southern Area Blue Complex Incident Management Team (CIMT) is managing the Table Rock Complex, in unified command with South Carolina Forestry Commission, North Carolina Forest Service, Greenville County Emergency Management and Pickens County Emergency Management. The incident is supported by the South Carolina Emergency Management Division, South Carolina State Fire, South Carolina Military Department, The Nature Conservancy, Greenville Water, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, USDA Forest Service and multiple local fire departments.

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