As of 5pm Friday, the N.C.Forest Service lifted the open burning ban for 32 counties, Alexander, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Gaston, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Iredell, Jackson, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mecklenburg, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Union, Watauga, Wilkes and Yancey. in counties where the ban has been lifted, people wanting to burn debris will need to reapply for a permit.

Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina has acquired a 93-acre tract in the Dysartsville Township that permanently protects important headwaters of Cane Creek and a piece of Revolutionary War history. The property, known as the Melton Tract, adjoins the NC Wildlife Resource Commission's South Mountains Game Lands to the west, and U.S.Highway 64 to the east. The property contains 3,500 linear feet of Cane Creek and tributaries within the Broad River Basin, and more than 500 linear feet of Magazine Branch in the Catawba River Basin. Both are significant river basins for recreation and drinking water in the region. The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail passes through the middle of the tract, An archeologist hired by Foothills Conservancy, has discovered that the Melton property is situated within the boundary of the Cane Creek battlefield, and will be recommending that the battlefield be nominated for the National Register of Historic Places as a significant historic battlefield related to events of the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War in general, and the Overmountain Victory Campaign specifically.