I’m not young, and all my long life I’ve read about annual California wildfires.
How can this possibly be a new thing?
Since 1999, California has kept track of them each year:
http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_statsevents
From the SAME website, list of top 20 Californian wildfires, earliest was the Matlija fire of September 1932 that burned 220,000 acres in Ventura County:
*There is no doubt that there were fires with significant acreage burned in years prior to 1932, but those records are less reliable, and this list is meant to give an overview of the large fires in more recent times.
Right on. Thanks for the info.