(Photo via inciweb.nwcg.gov)

Crews fight the lightning-caused Guadalupe Fire near Cloverdale in June 2015.

Multiple fires have burned across Arizona this year. Many of those fires have been caused by lightning, and land managers have allowed them to burn as contained fires.

Delores Garcia with the Arizona Bureau of Land Management said this summer’s perfect weather conditions have allowed for those choices to be made.

“We’ve been getting just the right amount of moisture. The winds aren’t there that tend to aggravate, and or, make our fire behavior more aggressive," said Garcia. "And because we have been getting that same amount of moisture and the relativity lower or moderate temperatures, it has allowed fire managers to really work and do some great work on the land."

And while states in the Northwestern U.S. are dealing with a devastating wildfire season, Arizona has had an unusually quiet summer.

Since the beginning of this year, 90,000 acres of Arizona forest have burned as a result of lighting-caused fires. Garcia said the favorable weather has allowed fire managers to use the naturally caused fires as contained burns.

“It wasn’t as windy this year as we had seen in previous years, which tends to drive our aggressive wildfires that we have seen in the past. Such as the Wallow Fire,” she said.

Garcia said the use of contained burns from these lighting-caused fires will hopefully aid in preventing destructive fires in the future.    

Arizona’s fire season peaked in June.

Fires And Acres Burned In 2015 (Through July 7)