Large amounts of land in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.) are owned by paper companies to harvest their wood in good time.
Question 1: How often do they have forest fires?
Question 2: Why do you suppose that is?
Most foreign-owned land is for forestry, and owned by Canadians. Michigan is #5 by one account.
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2025/05/20/these-states-have-the-most-foreign-owned-land/