re: Texas has more acres of forest than California and currently zero fires.

Almost all of the forests in Texas are planted and managed for profit while about 20% of forests in California are managed to be....forests. Wildfires are GOOD for forests...it is how they exist at all in nature. It ain't good for planted pine and related profitability. Texas has about 170 million of acres of forest with 740 thousand acres of those in forests managed for forestry ONLY...California has 100 million acres of forest with 21 million acres being managed as forests only.


There is no such thing as "same global climate". That is idiotic. There is the same global climate change, if you accept that there is global climate change. Given that it is perfectly natural that wildfires occur in the western US as part of the ecological survival of the area the climatic conditions that promote those fires will increase their frequency and impact when increased. Texas does not have the same climate. While the wind in West Texas certainly blows hard and often it is nothing like what goes on in along the pacific coast during wildfire season...and is part of nature doing what nature does in the area...and the acres of forest in West Texas, in a comparable climate to that of the west coast where fires occur, isn't close to the same acreage.

Wildfires happen and are required for healthy forests. The encroachment of people into forested areas where wildfires occur regularly and as part of the natural management of forests makes them more newsworthy and expensive. It is the same with all natural "disasters"...a Cat 5 Hurricane hitting South Padre Island is devastating but that same hurricane hitting New York dead center would be infinitely more catastrophic. Had Katrina hit Padre Island it would have been remembered as a very bad hurricane...it more or less hitting New Orleans was infinitely worse....