Everything is now because of global warming.
https://apnews.com/article/fires-environment-and-nature-wildfires-science--f4bdbd0971a98ef5fb86d9e6a083df67BOISE, Idaho (AP) — At nearly every community meeting on firefighting efforts in the U.S. West, residents want to know why crews don’t simply put out the flames to save their homes and the valuable forests surrounding them.
It’s not that simple, wildfire managers say, and the reasons are many, some of them decades in the making and tied to climate change. The cumulative result has been an increase in gigantic wildfires with extreme and unpredictable behavior threatening communities that in some instances didn’t exist a few decades ago.
I notice that he isn't addressing the impact of the so-called "wilderness initiative" from Clinton days, which makes it impossible to thin and maintain forests to reduce the fire load in the so-called "wilderness" areas.
