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Burn ban remains in place for Triad and High Country

This North Carolina Forest Service map shows what counties still have burn bans in effect, and those that have had the ban lifted. Courtesy of N.C. Forest Service via Twitter.

State forest fire officials have lifted an outdoor burn ban for about one-third of the state's counties. 

The North Carolina Forest Service issued a statewide burn ban after a very dry and windy November led to an outbreak of wildfires. Pilot and Sauratown mountains were among the hardest hit. 

The agency has lifted the ban for most of the far west and southeastern counties. The remaining ones were largely in the Triad and the northwest area of the state bordering Virginia.

The Forest Service says places lifted from the ban have benefitted from recent rains. The Piedmont Triad has not, but relief could be on the way.

The National Weather Service in Blacksburg, Virginia, is calling for showers in the Piedmont and the northwest North Carolina mountains over the weekend.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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