Living in the Ozarks, the only smoke we get here are from controlled burns in the national forests. The paper company forests never seem to burn.
Back in the 1950s-1960s, we used to get lots of wildfires from the trains throwing off sparks. When the railroad companies started properly maintaining the rights of way, the fires suddenly ceased. In the last thirty years, I’ve seen one near wildfire when the railroad workers were cutting up old rails and the local grass caught fire.
Today the most wildfires I’ve seen has been from idiots throwing live cigarettes out of car windows in late winter.
“The paper company forests never seem to burn.”
That’s because their forests are managed and “raked”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXh_HwJaXT8