First to say, the land across California is split in ownership and management between US Federal Agencies in total, the State of California, private companies for commercial use - importantly timber and electrical power, and other uses. Historically the slow-moving majority-owner Federal Forest management emphasized the value of forests as a crop by charter, leading to the now-infamous density and fire-abatement policies lasting well into the 21st century.
Things changed quite a lot legally in the aftermath of the 2017 catastrophic wildfire season that wiped out a third of a city, Santa Rosa, just North-East of San Francisco. The 2017 year's wildfire totals were +1.5 million acres. Only later to be exceeded in 2021, including the Dixie Fire "in Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Shasta, and Tehama counties started on July 13, burned a total of 963,309 acres, destroyed 1,329 structures and damaged 95 additional structures." (oddly, part of which was via arson by a CA college Police Criminology professor named Gary Stephen Maynard )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubbs_Fire
A legal document was drafted and signed, that resolved the cost and authority imbalances between four Federal and State Agencies under Governor Newsom. Next, by order N-05-19 from the Office of the California Governor (among many such orders), State Agencies and stakeholders are required to respond in writing, and on a regular basis, on what is being done.
https://wildfiretaskforce.org/
https://energysafety.ca.gov/what-we-do/wildfire-safety-advis...
The political document in effect now from Gov. Newsom / Sacramento is called:
california wildfire and forest resilience action plan_2021.pdf
There is more to say on the topic of management and liability, but let's move on..
High-tech constantly seeks to sell products to government, but actual progress is sometimes backwards in practice. This time, real advances were made.. for example:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/how-the-...
Please recall that the largest wildfire in the history of the State of New Mexico, was a controlled burn gone wrong.. very wrong..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/05/17/new-mexico-...
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/20/1099625787/new-mexico-wildfir...
https://losalamosreporter.com/2022/05/05/rep-leger-fernandez...
The reigning academic heavyweight for Forestry and California Forestry, is Dr Scott Stephens, with well-over 100 publications on the topic. Reading a little more deeply, you might find a man who knows how to navigate between the powers that be, as well as do science.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nlwR8igAAAAJ&hl=en...
Current firefighting policy for public consumption might be found (somewhere) here