We here in CA are familiar with the fires in this state so let me give you a better idea. Though in the Sierra Nevada mountains, we do get a few fires, such as one this summer close to Yosemite Park, most of our fires are in hilly grasslands that have some oak trees as natural. The rest of the trees are planted and non native stock. Many causes of the fires end the notion that climate change causes them. For example one major fire was caused by the utility company supplying electricity and natural gas. Another was due to a hot catalytic converter on a car that contacted dry grass and ignited that. Some are set by humans. But this whopper of a fire was in 1871 and since I just learned of it last evening, figured on passing it along. https://www.weather.gov/grb/peshtigofire This fire ignited humans fleeing the fire. People that found relief in the river poked up their faces only to get burned badly. It was responsible for killing over a thousand people.
