Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western megafires of today

Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by fathompinball on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:23AM (#28075003)

>at least those megafires will decrease the likelihood of fires in the comming years.

I wouldn't be so sure. It looks like a lot of the fires don't wipe out the fuel load, a lot of burnable stuff grows back quickly, it doesn't take all that many years for everything to grow back.

Living in one of the uber-flammable areas, it's funny how fast all of the plants grow. This entire locality is (2nd (or 3rd (or 4th))) generation trees.

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Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by go_elmo on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:52AM (#28075457)

yes, they will. There is a comparison of west-side fires in mexico compared to california (close by areas) where in california every fire is immediately fought, where as in mexico there are more frequent fires, and in general they are less destructive. Sorry but no time to search for the sources now, had it back in school... Thats what I was refering to, a fire all 5 years still has less material than one every 10, no matter the growth rate

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Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by bagacrap on Thursday August 05, 2021 @08:53PM (#28082022)

socal and NorCal have vastly flora, and the mega fires are all in the North. I wouldn't expect Mexico to have fires like NorCal no matter what the government did.

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