Our little town is bracketed by thousands of acres of both national and state forests…not parks, forests. We never have wildfires because we have frequent controlled burns to manage underbrush and other combustibles. Of course, we’re Florida, not California….
Well aware. I think it was a video pinged to me by FReeper EBH which alerted me to the dichotomy between your state & CA.
I did a little digging and found it to be factual and, in addition to my being ignorant about it despite long interest in fire ecology and efforts to mitigate conflagrations, hardly reported on at all.
They do controlled burns down in the Ozark forests south of here. Only wildfires we have had is when some goof ball decided to burn his trash on a windy day.