You mean this year? Because every place in the entire state burns eventually.
Thing is, fire in California is a self-regulating process. Plants grow and drop flammable material which builds up until a wildfire happens, and then flammable material is removed from the system. Then plants regrow (lots of them can survive fire, others are reintroduced), and flammable material builds up again until the next fire. So the amount of plant growth is regulated by fire, and fire is regulated by plant growth. Too many fires and there’s no plant growth, and which means less fuel, which means fewer fires. Too few fires means more plant growth, which means material builds up, which means more fires. It’s a circle of life thing.
And, they insist on making the roof out of kindling wood (aka 'shake").:mad: I saw some pictures after the Oakland fires- there’d be a home with a tile roof sitting there in the middle of a dozen burned out houses- and I saw this over and over.
Lemur866: umm, no, we have areas with no vegetation at all, of course.
Since they opted to live in the woods, people want trees nestled right up to their houses.
Eucalyptus. Big factor in the Oakland Hills firestorm. Many of the transition zones between forest and urban areas contain extensive groves of these hundred foot tall non-native tiki torches. They drop huge amounts of flammable duff, too.
Yes, but I can see the Oak Glen III and Pendelton fires from my dining room window. They canceled school today because of air quality issues. Well, that and because it’s hard to either teach or study when there’s a good chance your house might burn down.
They seem to have settled down tonight. I guess having Ah-nold in town scared the fires a bit!
Yeah, I live in California and I just don’t get the mentality of people who live in the mountains and the foothills. It’s not the same type of risk as earthquakes, serious ones of which only occur every few decades. It happens every year. First your home is in danger of burning down, then it’s in danger of being carried away by a flash flood or a mudslide. I would never live in a forested area. It’s the city all the way for me.
My best friend from high school lived up Silverado, Modjeska & Harding Canyons for years, until the disasters a couple of years back. First, the fire burned right up to her back retaining wall, then the subsequent mudslides sent a boulder the size of a VW Bug crashing through her kitchen wall, about 10 feet from where her kids usually sat & watched TV.
They said “fuck it” and moved to a rental near the beach. She expects a tsunami at some point.
It appears you’re unaware of the fact that most of the brush burning in the Station Fire has not burned in 40 years or more. There are sections of Mt. Wilson that have not burned in over 70 years. The fires, while they happen every year, don’t happen in the same location every year.
Just as an aside-- most of Laurel and Coldwater Canyons have not burned in over 30 years. And there’s more million dollar homes there than you can shake a stick at.
Much ado about nothing here, really. With this logic, most of Florida should be permanently vacated, no?
