Flock & ALPR Cameras in Burnsville, North Carolina
Volunteers have reported 4 automated license plate readers in and around Burnsville — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
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No new reports near Burnsville in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 22:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Burnsville
The readers mapped around Burnsville break down as 4 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Dec 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- NC 197 — 2 readers
- State Highway 80 South — 1 reader
- Mountain Heritage High School Road — 1 reader
Burnsville in the Yancey County picture
Yancey County has 5 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,122 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 18,676 residents and 1,083 road miles. By road density that is 0.00 cameras per road mile, in the top 62.5% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
What’s watching Burnsville
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Burnsville — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Burnsville (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Burnsville
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near Burnsville
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).