SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom Tuesday signed a proclamation terminating 26 open states of emergency dating back to 2017. These include various fires, prior storms and other incidents including the mpox emergency proclaimed in August of last year, coinciding with the termination of the federal public health emergency on mpox today.
The text of today’s proclamation can be found here.
The state’s COVID-19 State of Emergency will end on February 28, 2023, as announced by the Governor in October.
A PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
TERMINATING STATES OF EMERGENCY
I, GAVIN NEWSOM, Governor of the State of California, having found pursuant to Government Code section 8629 that the conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property declared in the State of Emergency proclamations listed below no longer exist, therefore proclaim that the States of Emergency proclaimed on the following dates and in the following jurisdictions no longer exist, effective immediately. Accordingly, any Executive Order provisions related to the terminated states of emergency are no longer in effect.
| Route Fire | 11/19/2022 | Los Angeles County |
| Monkeypox | ||
| Storms | 7/16/2022 | Plumas and Tehama Counties |
| Colorado Fire | 7/1/2022 | Monterey County |
| Pipeline Spill | 10/4/2021 | Orange County |
| Energy | 7/30/2021 | Statewide |
| Fire Weather Conditions | 10/27/2019 | Statewide |
| Tick & Kincade Fires | 10/25/2019 | Los Angeles and Sonoma Counties |
| Eagle, Reche Saddleridge, sandalwood, and Wolf Fires | 10/11/2019 | Los Angeles and Riverside Counties |
| Earthquake | 7/5/2019 | San Bernardino County |
| Earthquake | 7/4/2019 | Kern County |
| Storms | 4/12/2019 | Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Mariposa, Napa, Santa Cruz, Solano, Tuolumne |
| Forest Conditions | 3/22/2019 | Statewide |
| Storms | 2/28/2019 | Amador, Glenn, Lake, Mendocino & Sonoma Counties |
| Storms | 2/21/2019 | Calaveras, El Dorado, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clare, Shasta, Tehama, Trinity, Ventura, and Yolo Counties. |
| Mendocino Complex | 11/29/2018 | Colusa County |
| Holy Fire | 8/9/2018 | Orange and Riverside Counties |
| River, Ranch and Steele Fires | 7/28/2018 | Lake, Mendocino and Napa Counties, |
| Ferguson Fire | 7/26/2018 | Mariposa County |
| Klamathon Fire | 7/5/2018 | Siskiyou County |
| Pawnee Fire | 6/25/2018 | Lake County |
| Thomas Fire | 12/5/2017 | Ventura County |
| Atlas Fire | 10/10/2017 | Solano County |
| Tubbs and Atlas Fires | 10/9/2017 | Napa, Sonoma, and Yuba Counties |
| Cherokee, LaPorte, Sulphur, Potter, Cascade, Lobo, and Canyon Fires | 10/9/2017 | Butte, Lake Mendocino, Nevada, and Orange Counties |
| Spillway at Oroville Dam | 2/12/17 | Butte, Sutter and Yuba Counties |
I FURTHER DIRECT that as soon as hereafter possible, this Proclamation be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State and that widespread publicity and notice be given of this Proclamation.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of
California to be affixed this 31st day of January 2023.
