Both the State Department of Natural Resources and Grays Harbor County have announced the end of outdoor burning bans.

On Sept. 20 the DNR called off its ban, citing fall weather.

“The fall weather pattern shows us it’s time to lift western Washington’s burn ban,” commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark said in a Sept. 19 press release. “It will also permit us to ease the burn ban east of the Cascades by allowing campfires in some locations.”

Earlier this week, the county took the same action.

“Grays Harbor County Fire Districts and Fire Departments in cooperation with the Washington Department of Natural Resources and the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency, will be lifting burn restrictions to allow recreational campfires and residential burning, along with land clearing and silvicultural (forest practices) burning throughout Grays Harbor County,” a county press release stated.

In August, both the DNR and the county announced the burn bans. The bans came with dry and hot weather throughout the region.