A massive wildfire burning in South Carolina jumped the border Saturday and was spreading Sunday into North Carolina.

Hundreds of firefighters from across the U.S. are battling large wildfires in the Carolinas. See a map of which wildfires remain active today.

Wildfires are unusual in the Carolinas, but not unheard of. The Great Fire of 1898 burned some 4,700 square miles (12,175 square kilometers) in the two states, an area roughly the size of Connecticut, ...