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Originally Posted by Cool Beans
You would be surprised how well the dead dried old growth wood tends to create huge flying burning ash that just loves to float down and land on houses. The more dry dead growth there is, the more fuel these fires have, and the harder it is to fight. A forest fire of mostly live growth is much slower to spread and much easier to put out, but add 20% or more of dry dead fuel and things like this fire happen.
Load your fireplace all the way to the top with green wood and chances are you wont even be able to light the damn thing, but fill it to the brim with dry wood and you will likely burn down your damn house.
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Two years ago they had a million dead trees in California and were trying to take care of them, more trees have died in the time since.
Just clearcutting the dead trees creates another problem, which will be the next issue in the fire areas, mudslides. Calfire is pretty proactive with the funding they have and the new Cali building codes make new houses more fireproof. However that does little for the old stock of homes.
Luckily we don't have that issue in New England, though a long drought in the northern forest would create the chance for a large forest fire.
There are lots of trees dying in Vermont and other parts because people imported firewood and brought foreign pests.
https://vtinvasives.org/gallery-of-forest-pests