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Wildfires are part of nature. Bad forest management by state and federal governments for decades has resulted in tinderboxes of dead wood. Just like central banks fighting small market corrections leads to major economic recessions, preventing small fires and active forest management and timber harvest has resulted in an environment where massive conflagrations can happen.

You should tell that to the people starting fires.

The nearest fire to me seems to have been the result of dry conditions and a windstorm that caused trees to fall on power lines. Others I am less sure of.