"After deadly wildfires in Los Angeles in the beginning of the year, and a series of massive blazes over the summer, California is experiencing a "calm period" with no major fires currently burning. Cal Fire's emergency incident webpage, which lists all the ongoing wildfires in the state, does not currently show any active blazes as of Tuesday afternoon. And experts are thanking favorable weather over the past two months."
"Craig Clements, a meteorology and climate science director at San Jose State University's Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center, told SFGATE that recent rainfalls have significantly reduced California's current fire risk. "The fire danger and fire risk has been like zero most of the month," he said. "It's been incredible and that's because we had that early rain in September." During the mid-October storm, some parts of the Bay Area received several inches of rain within a six-hour period."
Cal Fire's emergency incident webpage reports no active wildfires as of Tuesday afternoon. Recent significant rainfall in September and a mid-October storm dramatically lowered vegetation dryness and ignition potential across much of the state. Meteorologist Craig Clements noted that fire danger remained near zero for much of the month because of early September rain. Several cold fronts and unusually cool summer temperatures, including rare July rain, further reduced overall fire risk. Some large summer fires occurred but were contained by the end of September, contrasting with prior years when October fires lingered.
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