Nearly a month after a lightning strikes sparked wildfires in northern Minnesota, officials said Wednesday that conditions have started to ease and they are starting to focus efforts towards recovery. Gov. Tim Walz and other public safety officials said there is no need to extend the peacetime emergency that is set to expire Tuesday as the flames that have razed 65,000 acres of forest in Minnesota are no longer spreading. In the past few weeks, timely rain helped to dampen the wildfires, though officials say there's still a lot of hot spots and residual heat within the Superior National Forest. Northern Minnesota residents will still need to heed local warnings as conditions could change, officials say. There will likely be no rain over the next week, they added. bLast week, dozens of entry points in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness reopened after wildfires in northern Minnesota forced them to close for more than two weeks. As of Tuesday, the largest fire — dubbed Bear Trap — was 40% contained and had burned nearly 38,000 acres. At the peak, there were 2,400 personnel working to suppress the wildfires. Elevated burning restrictions remain in place in northeastern Minnesota, according to the DNR. Fire danger across the state is mostly low to moderate as of Wednesday, but a patch of central Minnesota is in the high category.