Has California always had this many fires? Or is this just the last few years that it is happening this way?

Question

I don't remember so many fires in California as in the last few years.What will they do when gasoline and water gets so expensive that they cannot afford to fight the fires?

Answer 1

Due to the environmentalists, California residents cannot clear the debris from the trees and such because they are homes to rats and other creatures that need to be saved.  

So all the build up of tree litter, and dry heat make this place a tinderbox that needs a spark.  This has been ongoing for along time and will continue.

Answer 2

Wild Fires have always been a part of California's history. They predate environmentalism, predate human occupation.  This time around, we're having an uncommon but not unheard of spike in quantity.

Imagin brush fires that would burn huge swathes of the Central Valley (in Calif.) or vast regions of the Great Planes.  They were pretty common way back when.  

Fuel costs?  I think efforts will focus more sharply on protecting structures or communities while letting unpopulated areas burn.  There's not much that can be done in rugged territory regardles.

Individual fires can get far worse than they were even 100 years ago.  Why?

For most of the 20th century the Nation (not just Calif.) has had a "no-burn" policy of fighting fires.  Rather than let nature clear itself of underbrush and debris naturally (by fire), the policy has been to let the junk build up resulting in vast quantities of fuel that didn't exist before.

So, fuel loads are unbelievable compared to the past.  When a fire gets started, they ramp up and really get destructive. It also doesn't help that people live in large numbers in places that normally wouldn't support homes.

Around 1990 a "let it burn" policy was tried to allow the environment to heal itself by allowing the forests to burn and restart the natural cycle.  There were a couple enormous fires in places like Yellowstone that freaked the environmentalists and most everyone else.  That policy was quickly abandoned as "politically unacceptable".

The fuel load and unbalanced problem remains.

We should let the forests burn.  It'll take several decades or a generation or three, and a lot of homes destroyed, but there will be a healing.  Huge fires will largely go away naturally.

Answer 3

I was stationed in California from 1991 to 1997 and there were ALWAYS major fires somewhere between San Francisco and San Diego during the dry season.  What you see of California on TV represents a very small part of The Golden State.  It's not all lush green with palm trees growing everywhere.  The vast majority of land in California is covered with wilted brown scrub brush.  You can imagine how easily that brush catches fire when the state can go for 9 months at a time without rain in some areas.  California has a pretty serious rash right now, but there were a couple of years I was stationed out there when the fire season was just as bad (if not worse).

Answer 4

'Fighting fire with gasoline'??

Answer 5

California has always had forest fires. They have failed to learn to prevent or control them.

Answer 6

It goes in cycles, some years a few fires, other years a mass of fires. But they have them EVERY year...

Answer 7

No.

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What do you think?