More than 15 inches of rain had fallen over parts of North Carolina by Monday morning, with more on the way. Strong winds and isolated tornadoes are also possible.
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses were without power as officials surveyed the damage from the storm, which made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane.
Francine made landfall in Terrebonne Parish as a Category 2 hurricane but weakened as it moved across land and was downgraded to a tropical storm Wednesday night.
One of the most concerning blazes, the Line Fire, spans nearly 33,000 acres and was at 14% containment in the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California.
Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm to hit the Southeast Asian country in decades, also disrupted businesses and factories in the export-focused northern industrial hubs.