@potterybyosa There has definately been an influence from development, but the trees dying plus our new wet/dry cycles make conditions explosive and is new.
Basically, wet years allow a lot of growth. Growth that dies in drought. So when we get rain, we will have fire a few years later.
The vegetation that grows back is scrub so it burns again, because the fire resistance trees where already dying from a bark bettle that thrive in drought. So you go from fire resistant forests to chapparal that is supposed to burn.
At that home I mentioned, there was 1 major fire growing up and it was talked about in shaky tones years later. In the last 10 years they have more that I can immediately count that were just as bad.
You can't look at photos like this and blame developers. Droughts are turning forests into tinderboxes. Chapparal is becoming gasoline.
https://www.capradio.org/articles/2017/12/15/record-129-million-dead-trees-in-california/
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