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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
You could maybe make a point that silviculture decisions makes forest fire burn more land or maybe burn hotter, but I don't think changing that affects the fact that we've had 3 of the driest springs on record combined with some of the hottest summers ever. I mean, the key determinant for whether or not there's a fire risk is precipitation and temperature. Trees don't spontaneously combust
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For sure the likelyhood of fires increases as we dry.
But we spent years fighting forest fires and not letting things burn. There is a whole bunch of forest that should have burned down already that hasn’t burnt down yet.
So in the future we should reach a lower steady state of forest fires than peak.