Unwise conduct brings about its own punishment. Hail happens no matter what people do, but wildfires are worse because of supposed green forest management policies.
"I passed through South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho by train. Among the valleys, with mountains on every side, during all that trip a mountain was never seen. This was because the fires in the mountains created such a smoke that the whole country was enveloped by it ... "
-- Major John Wesley Powell, 1889
Were there bad Green forest management policies in the West in the 1800s?
Bad stuff happens that has nothing to do with humans. Interestingly both the extremely religious and the extreme left/radical environmentalists have trouble with this concept.
The Haitian earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, and these fires are perfectly normal results of basic geology, climatology, biology, and physics that have clearly happened repeatedly in the same locations for thousands or millions of years. The people that happened to be near those events, and what they did or didn't believe were irrelevant to whether the event occurs. Obviously assuming thsee events occur, people have some control over how poorly built their houses are or whether they live below sea level, etc.
These events aren't purely random, of course, because they have clearly understood physical causes and a pattern of repeated occurance, but they are essentially random in their effect on humans - people are simply getting in the way.
The problem is it makes people feel better if it's God's punishment or human-caused "Climate change" because it implies it's less random and more controllable, somehow. It also makes people feel better if a fire is arson than if it's caused by lightning, for some reason. We can arrest arsonists, but can't arrest thunderstorms.
It's important for people to think rationally about natural disasters because based on a lot of geological and paleometeorological evidence, we've been lucky for quite a while. Of course, things simply returning to normal will either be blamed on divine punishment, or, if it's a weather-related event, on "Global Warming."