As cooler, wetter fall weather settles in, promising to extinguish the few remaining major wildfires still burning in Washington, Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove stated that, “this was a pretty typical fire season.”

Typical is encouraging, given some of the more destructive wildfire seasons in recent memory. This year, there were 1,851 wildfires that burned 251,840 acres in total.

Importantly, 94% of the wildfires on state land were kept to under 10 acres.

“That is pretty doggone good as far as making sure that we keep the acres small, that we minimize the amount of damage,” State Forester George Geissler noted.

The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) credited funding from the state under House Bill 1168, which the legislature passed after the devastating wildfires o

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