Why do wild bush fires occur so often in California and Australia year after year?
I don’t know much about Australia, so I cant really comment on that. But I can tell you all about fire ecology in California. The answer to your question has many facets. First of all, California has a distinct, dry climate, a period of time from about April or May to October or November where it receives very little, mostly no rainfall at all throughout the state. And for the winter months, it is quite common to not receive enough rainfall to prevent the state from going into repeated periods of drought. Southern California has distinctive brushy vegetation that has evolved around this dry climate and is primed ready to burn with just the smallest little bit of fire to start it going. So.Cal also has unusual, erratic wind patterns near the coast, called Santa Ana winds, that create unpredictable, extreme wildfire behavior that causes wildland fires to suddenly explode out of control. And due to SoCal being depicted as a tropical paradise full of beautiful wealthy people, massive amoun
