Nevertheless, the forests in California have Not been thinned, nor has the understory, the Fire Ladder, been properly’raked’.
A secondary problem has been a simple lack of proper Zoning, to require dwellings in the chaparral areas to use fire resistant walls and roofs, plus fire resistant outside shutters on all windows and doors so radiant heat cannot ignite furnishings. Every dwelling also needs high volume sprinklers permanently rooftop mounted,
Oh, and the Climate Change can go plus or minus. Four hundred years ago there was ice on the river Thames, past London, England. Seems there were few, or no sunspots then.
Sunspot count is low nowadays, eh?