Recent rains and cooler temperatures across the region have lowered the threat of wildfires allowing CalFire’s Amador–El Dorado Unit to transition out of peak fire season effective today in Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento and Alpine counties.

CalFire will continue to maintain staffing to meet any potential threat, as well as maintaining the ability to strategically move resources to areas that remain at a higher threat level. CalFire will also continue to monitor weather conditions closely and still has the ability to increase staffing should weather conditions change or if there is a need to support wildfires or other emergencies in other areas of the State.

Statewide, CalFire and firefighters from many local agencies responded to more than 6,000 wildfires within the state responsibility area that burned nearly 505,000 acres. In the Amador–El Dorado Unit, CalFire responded to 232 wildfires that charred 2,268 acres.

A leading cause of wildfires this time of year is from escaped landscape debris burning.