We'd still want to protect homes and people of course, but it seems like that would be easier if we didn't send fire fighters out to fight the remote fires.
Maximal fire suppression strategies have been the most prevalent approach to avoiding property damage and loss of life caused by forest fires for most of the past century, despite the known harm to ecological systems that rely on periodic burning, because nature is difficult to control/predict and prescribed burns (an alternative or supplemental approach) are time and labor intensive.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40725-015-0013-9
>> Objectives for fuels management have not changed much over the years and generally aim to achieve the above-stated benefits at least cost. Even so, documentation is scant that specific payoffs are actually realized. Arguably, wildfire encounters with areas where fuels have been manipulated provide the best evidence of fuel treatment effectiveness, but limited information is available here as well.