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The state manages it. I posted numerous links about it yesterday on another forum.

California faces a critical need for wildland fire hazard reduction at a time when the state’s collective will and wherewithal to implement the needed fuel treatments are highly limited. Perhaps the greatest impediments to increased support for fuel management are the pervasive public misperceptions that wildfire is necessarily bad and that healthy, productive forests can be sustained without being managed. Some environmental organizations oppose all forms of forest management and suspect that any management involving tree removal constitutes resource exploitation. Many nonindustrial landowners and residents of forest intermix areas fail to implement needed fuel treatments because they view such management as conflicting with their preservationist values or are simply reluctant to invest in land improvements. Land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service have undergone repeated reductions in their land management budgets and related output targets. The wildfire suppression divisions of these agencies sometimes regard fuel management programs as being in competition with their own programs for funding. Air quality management agencies sometimes oppose the use of prescribed fire for fuel management because of its short-term environmental impacts.

Most importantly California policies govern the management - or mismanagement - of the wildfire "prevention".

Here in Michigan we fend off some 100 legal challenges/year from the EPA fruitloop Sierra Club pukes over our prescribed burns. 600 wildfires here last year and only 3000 acres burned. Why? Because we don't kow-tow to the envirowhackos and we still manage our forests by reducing fuel. And, btw, we have more forest than any other state in this country. So we know wildfires. We have 20 million acres of forest, and how often do you hear about our state having wildfires out of control? It's very very dry here except in August.

In California the Sierra club pukes run the show and they don't even try to manage the fuel, therefore when they have wildfires, they get worse and worse over time.