Rain finally puts an end to wildfire season in Western Washington

The 2022 wildfire season in Western Washington is over, thanks to the rain the region has received since Friday.

"Areas around the Bolt Creek fire, specifically the 14,000 acres the fire had burned so far, received between two and four inches of rain over the past week which is plenty to saturate the ground, to get through those dense canopies all the way down to the understory, and it really has halted the spread of the fire," said Matthew Dehr, a meteorologist with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

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Dehr said that the Bolt Creek fire, as well as others west of the Cascade Mountains, are not expected to grow and more. Fire crews are still keeping an eye out for flare ups in the area, however, and ground crews are watching our for landslides and falling trees along Highway 2.

"There are a lot of very damaged trees in that area now," Dehr said. "I mean it's 14,000 acres, it's quite a large area that got impacted by the fire so, luckily, we have not seen any landslides or debris flow in that area yet. However, we do continue to get rain."

The Department of Natural Resources says that stretches along Highway 2 are at risk of debris flow. There may be road closures in the future.

The Bolt Creek fire burned mostly on U.S. forest land that hadn't burned in the last century. It required a large firefighting response for about 41 days, in Snohomish County.