Even if ya clear your home, with wind driven wild fires, embers can EASILY be blown hundreds of feet across cleared ground right up under you eves etc...In many cases hot embers can be blown in for miles in front of fire lines, creating more fires.
Read about the Peshtigo fire. That was a doozy.
People not from California don’t understand the the conditions that make up fires here. They are rather unique.
I meant in general. I spent 25 plus years in the liberal Utopia of Wa state. Their forest management during that time changed from actively working to prevent wildfires to “rewilding” - letting forests self manage and closing roads to prevent human intervention. The latter doesn’t work.