# Six dead as severe winter storms and wildfires wreak havoc across US

Fires broke out in southern Appalachia this week as a storm from California took casualties in Mississippi and Nebraska

Nina Lakhani - Thu 6 Mar 2025 10:58 EST

Last modified on Fri 7 Mar 2025 05.16 EST

## Extreme weather conditions continue to threaten parts of the southern plains and midwest on Thursday, after six people were killed earlier this week in a powerful storm that wreaked havoc across multiple states.

As damage assessments continued in the south, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) warned of critical fire conditions for parts of south-east  and western Texas on Thursday.

Fires have broken out across parts of southern Appalachia this week, with 126 still actively burning in North Carolina, according to .

Meanwhile a new winter storm system is moving east from California and is expected to bring 1-2ft of snow across high elevations across the Mogollon Rim of Arizona, the Wasatch of Utah, western  and parts of Wyoming.

The deaths - three people in  and three in Nebraska - occurred on Tuesday, local authorities said, as a winter weather system brought blizzard conditions, strong winds, flash floods and tornadoes for tens of millions of people through Wednesday morning.

In Mississippi, a man was electrocuted while trying to put out a grass fire caused by a downed power line, while falling trees killed another man and a woman in separate incidents. Six more people in the state were injured by the severe weather, said Governor Tate Reeves.

In Nebraska, severe winter storms brought havoc to the roads with hundreds of traffic incidents including a head-on crash between a car and a tractor-trailer that killed three people, the  said.

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