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Because wind carries the burning material through the air to go and start more fires.
Yeah no shit embers travel through the air that's why you burn up the stuff it's going to land on before the whole state is on fire. That's how you keep a fire small enough to stop. No amount of firefighter can put out an entire forest. The entire test of the world has it figured out except California. You're not the only place on the planet with a forest.
Okay what about trees, bushes, houses and everything else that's made from flammible material? All of those blow embers in the wind too and can't all be knocked down. Look at what happened in Maui. You don't need a huge national forest to have a devastating wildfire.
Where exactly in the world is this "figured out?" Wildfires happen all over the world.
https://earth.org/largest-wildfires-in-history/
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/climate/greece-wildfires-athens-photos-climate-intl/index.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/17/thousands-forced-to-evacuate-as-wildfires-rage-in-western-turkey
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/12693/fires-in-southeast-asia
Our southern states in Australia have the fucked up mentality of don't back burn and don't pick up firewood from the forest cause you're RuInInG tHe NaTUrAl HaBiTAt
Ironically raging bush fires ruin the habitat too.