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It's actually a normal natural process that needs to happen. It's the only way Lodgepole Pines regenerate for instance (their pods need heat to crack open to release seeds). This is actually a healthy thing, for the environment anyways. Fires aren't bad, it's the methods we use to intervene and plan, and our development planning that's the real issue.
Yes one or two wild fires every few years are part of natural process, but what going on RN is way out of scale and add to the already not natural pressure we put on forest regeneration.
We've been suppressing fires for decades, allowing underbrush to build up creating even worse conditions for fires.
Either we let it burn, or make a conscious effort to clean up the underbrush ($$$). There is nothing we can do to reverse climate change fast enough to stop this.