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Yikes you should consider replacing that screw terminal with a new one. With all the charring, it's possible that it's not making a great connection between the board and wire, which causes higher resistance and the terminal to heat up further.
I have more terminals to swap in but I'll be replacing the board anyway. The other identical board never did this but I also never tried pushing the limits on that one.
There must be something wrong with contact between traces/solder/connector/wire on this unit. May be many things, but high resistance is basically just a bad contact/too small area of contact.
For instance, one time an SKR board came to me with bed connector not soldered(!) to the board. I didn't notice for quite some time and have been using it, because the connector was seated strong enough. I noticed only because of the gradual heat damage to the board, and bed heating times getting longer and longer to the point of getting thermal runaway errors. Only then I inspected it in detail.
The other time on another SKR board, the connector was soldered, but slipped out of the solder which was the first time in my life I've seen anything like this. The solder cone was correctly formed, but I could slip the connector in and out of it. Guess something was wrong with surfaces of the connectors pins, maybe wrong metal on the outer layer so it didn't really get wetted by solder, guess I'll never know. Thankfully I've noticed this right before assembly.
Do not trust cheap DIY electronics that are suppossed to run long term unsupervised unconditionally, is what I'm trying to say.
I had an issue I caught early when I swapped my prusa from a Rambo to an skr mini, used the same power wires which didn't have ferrules, I got "lucky" that the power supply shut itself down, one wire had worked itself a bit loose, enough to potentially arc.
I've replaced everything with new 14 awg wire with solid ferrules and I inspect semi regularly, I trust my crimps here but I don't mess around with potential fire hazards. I think there's a tendency to think, oh it's low voltage, it's fine, but there's a lot of energy going through those wires, treat it with the same respect you would mains power. Take your time, double check everything, and invest in good crimping tools.