Rake the forests. Allow cows to graze. Don’t build too close to forests. Don’t let pine needles pile up on your roofs. Don’t throw empty gas cans around on your property (I actually saw this on a rustic winery in the fire-prone Napa area).
You forgot: don’t build big towns near mountains in dry areas of prairie grass, where high winds are common.
Just like a river flooding its banks, the current is not terribly fast except where the water is restricted. Hence, the channel under the bridges are subjected to the pressures of high speed currents, and often the bridge footings can’t hold up
What happened in Boulder County was not an if, but a when it would happen.
My brother lived in that area for 19 years and saw numerous small fires, that couldn’t do a lot of damage because there wasn’t many homes. But that was in the 80s and 90s.
Is there a real yard, that’s green, in the Denver metro area, that isn’t irrigated?
Even western Kansas would grassfire central if it wasn’t for all of the irrigation pivots, that allow it to be farmed.