On Monday afternoon, Russell Hubright, a spokesman for the South Carolina Forestry Commission, confirmed that 12,590 acres of woodlands at Table Rock Mountain had burned since a fire began there on March 21.
That includes 574 acres burned across the border, in Transylvania County, N.C.; and that makes the Table Rock fire the largest wildfire in South Carolina’s history.
That distinction was previously held by a fire at Pinnacle Mountain (part of the Table Rock Complex) in 2016. About 10,000 acres burned there over the course of a month that fall…