I am pretty sure that is why you can no longer get strike-anywhere matches.
I lit a field on fire one time playing around with those matches. My co-conspirator ran off, but I couldn’t because I lost my glasses trying to stamp it out, and was there when the fire truck showed up.
Base Security took me to my dad’s office, he was the XO on the base at the time.
My poor dad. I recall he didn’t do what I expected (which was to get menacingly angry) but just asked me to explain, and when I did, he was just quietly speechless.
We still buy them from wally world. Hubby preferred them to the strike on box ones. Don’t know why.