The city-wide fire ban has been lifted.

Warren Zakus, acting chief of the Whitehorse Fire Department, made the announcment this morning, a little more than a week after the ban was put into effect amid hot, dry conditions through Whitehorse and the entire territory.

"Recent weather has led to a change in fire conditions and the fire ban in Whitehorse is being lifted at this time,” Zakus said in a statment.

"I'd like to thank citizens for assisting the Whitehorse Fire Department in keeping our community safe.”

The fire department will continue monitoring fire conditions and will reinstate the ban "when and if it becomes necessary,” he added.

Whitehorse is one of two fire districts in the territory to see new fires burning over the weekend, the other being in Ross River.

Wildland fire officials said this morning one of the three appeared to be caused by a campfire that wasn't properly extinguished.

The 0.1-hectare blaze was discovered at 3 p.m. Friday near Grey Mountain.

"It's fortunate the fire did not occur earlier in the week when conditions were much more extreme in the Whitehorse area,” Lorne Harris, Wildland Fire Management's duty officer, said this morning

"It's still disconcerting to see a wildfire burning this close to a community. Thankfully, it was discovered early and quickly extinguished.”

The other 0.1 ha, human-caused fire in Whitehorse, was reported earlier at 10:35 a.m. Friday in Porter Creek. It was easily extinguished, officials said.

It was a satellite that picked up the lightning-caused fire in the Ross River district, measuring more than 100 hectares in a wilderness area about 135 kilometres east of the community with no structures at risk.

While Whitehorse is listed as having a low danger rating along with most districts in the territory, Ross River is rated as being in moderate danger, along with Watson Lake.

It is in the Watson Lake district, near the B.C. border, that an evacuation notice was issued last week to residents of Junction 37 and Upper Liard.

Wildland Fire Management officials are reminding residents that it's not an order to leave the area, but rather a precautionary measure so they can prepare for a potential emergency.

The Stewart-Cassiar Highway – Highway 37 – has remained closed with periodic openings as a fire 22,000 ha large burns in the region.

A total of 20 firefighters from the territory are heading there to assist B.C. crews.

Structrual protections have been put in place at Junction 37, home of the Gold Nugget Lodge and cabins, and residents with respiratory problems are being advised to stay out of the smoke in the area.

Haines Junction remains the only district to have a high danger rating.

To date, the territory has seen 83 fires burn 150,066.86 ha this year.