We have controlled burns in Georgia as well. Timber forests are regularly thinned and there is very little fuel should a fire be started accidentally. Government agencies do not overly-regulate timber-lands and trust those managing the properties to use industry best practices to produce high quality timber and do what is necessary to keep the chance of a rapidly spreading wildfire to a minimum.
Over-regulation and bowing down to the eco-wackos contributed greatly to the CA fires. DEI incompetence did the rest.
Most forest lands in the South, in fact any state east of the Rockies, are privately owned. The Feds own a majority of the lands in the West, possibly little under half in California. Public land policy is politically driven, not market driven. When ii suited Federal objectives to allow farming, livestock raising, and mining in the West, the Feds were permissive. After about 1970, Federal policy was driven by environmental concerns and human activities in public lands were discouraged. Compound that with lunatic liberals in Colorado, New Mexico, California, Washington, and Oregon and you have our current situation that is a factor in the Los Angeles fires.