> And they blame the CA gov for stopping controlled fires in the last couple of years

This is what is crazy to me. Growing up in the Midwest, we always had controlled burns on extended family's rural farmland near forests, to prevent future wildfires. It was a regular occurrence

Looking up how absolutely little CA does for controlled burns compared to the Midwest and Southeast was an insane eye opener to me.

Florida alone does like 50x the amount of controlled burns than CA.

Minnesota, which is tiny by comparison, does more controlled burns than CA (or at least used to within the last few years)