More rain needed to end wildfire danger in Mass.

It finally rained across Massachusetts on Thursday, so that's the end of the wildfires that have plagued the state for two months, right?

Right?

On Friday, for the first time in 30 days, there were no new wildfires reported to the state, according to the Department of Conservation and Recreation. But it'll take more of a soaking to douse the acres of land already on fire, said Fire Program Coordinator Alex Belote.

"What we don't expect is for this rain to completely extinguish the fires, especially these large fires, like the one out in Great Barrington and a couple up on the North Shore," he said. "We expect that they'll still have heat in them. And once the fuel dries out, that they'll continue to smolder after that."

The fire in Great Barrington has so far consumed about 1,300 acres of land, and as of Friday afternoon remains completed uncontained. In all, there's been more than 400 fires reported across Massachusetts, burning more than 2,800 acres.

The burning comes amid a statewide drought, with the latest state data showing all of Massachusetts outside of the Cape and Islands is coping with "critical" levels of dryness. It will likely take more than one day of heavy rain to alleviate these conditions, according to Belote.

"We're still at a big deficit for precipitation for the fall," Belote said. "Once things dry out — once we have, you know, a few days of sun — it will still be in a fire situation where people have to be very careful with any outside fire heat source, disposing of ashes."

The good news is the forecast is on our side: Expect more rain Friday evening into all day Saturday, and then again on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.

If the next few days represent a change in the recent dry pattern, that would be the relief needed, according to Belote.

"What's really going to help, you know, put these fires out for the season is when we have a pattern where we're getting rain every couple of days for a little while, and to really put those those deep burning fires out," he said.