Absolutely. We had a cabin in the Sierras in California. For many many decades, the environmental wackos decreed that there should be no burning and I’ll wildfires would be put out. That caused an awful lot of dead brush and downed trees to pile up. Add dry conditions, which are common there, and you’re just waiting for a wildfire.
My son lived in FL in the country and he kept all the brush down/short around his house.. for half a mile around it. I know when wildfires burned out west (not CA), they said the natural way of keeping trees cut and new one growing, made the possibility of those fires almost nill.. but with the environmental wackos, there would be wild fires that “cut” the trees down in a dangerous way. Yea, they don’t have sense that don’t have sense...to figure out what they are doing is wrong. Same with the snail they are worrying about in the water, when farmers are losing everything without water.