“These fires come after the wettest winter in Norcal in the last 100 years.”
Coniferous trees burn even when wet.
The water really kicked up the growth in some areas.
The real cause of these fires is people building hundreds of thousands of houses in areas that have ALWAYS burned every few years, as far back as we have records. The Mexicans who lived here hundreds of years ago were smarter than some of these politicians, developers, and yuppies- they built houses out of MUD with tile roofs because is always burns here. It rains in Florida, you get hurricanes in Texas, you get fires in California. You get something everywhere, if not it would be so overcrowded from everyone wanting to live there ....
They burn like torches.
A “game” my friends and family play out in western Nebraska is “Kill the lodge pole pine”.
Its all the oils in the sap I think.