If it’s less, there should be fewer. We’ll see how many we get.
I’m just fairly convinced that a lot of “wildfires” are due to policies that restrict clearing to reducec the risks of genuine, naturally-occuring (lightning, for example) grassland and forest fires.
Then there are other causes that are not so natural: homeless camps, careless recreationists,..., and my hunch of some firebug on some government payroll.
Fires in Oregon during the summer last year were appearing within hundreds of yards of the same stretch of highway, for example. Too many to spontaneously occur. Human agency causng mayhem during the “protests” is my guess.
My grandson is a professional wildland firefighter. Two years ago he was fretting about the wet Spring saying that all the brush and grass growing were going to cause lots of problems when it got dry. I mocked him in a light hearted way and he got upset with me. And of course it turned out to be a bad fire season as he had predicted. He hasn’t let me forget it since.