In South Carolina, the majority of the fires had been controlled or contained. There was one fire still burning in Horry County to the northwest of Myrtle Beach. This fire, which according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission was approximately 2,059 acres in size, had been 30 percent contained as of 3:25 a.m.

Lighter winds in South Carolina and North Carolina are helping firefighters battle blazes that caused evacuations and threatened hundreds of homes over the weekend

With dry conditions across the Carolinas creating tinderbox conditions, wildfires are burning in the region. The largest fire in the Upstate is a nearly 500-acre blaze near Landrum in Polk County along the South Carolina-North Carolina that has required evacuations and was 30% contained as of the morning of March 3.