So Many Wildfires

I live in California where fires are normal every summer. Fires in California have been raging for centuries and I think the problem with the eco-system will result from companies cutting down the trees to build malls and houses instead of from the fires.

Well in Florida since I live here I think it is from lack of rain myself and the heat being around or over 100 F

Thee aren't any more than usual. the fact is that forests burn approximately every twenty years or so, and have always bounced back but now that most small fires are put out, the underbrush is not being burnt down, so they spread faster than normal, and seem bigger. The biggest problem is that people are now living in the forests, and news people can get right to a fire and report it, so it seems like there are more

I live in California and we are actually having a dry year. I can't remember when we last had rain. So I think that may factor into the fire situation. But like others have mentioned. Fires are a natural part of this ecosystem. Its man suppressing the fires that makes them so deadly. Small annual fires would burn out all the underbrush normally, but we have suppressed those so much that the result is that we now have large dangerous fires that kill people and destroy homes. Did you know that there are even some trees whose seed dispersal mechanism is to only release their seeds in the even of a fire? Fire is a natural part of the ecosystem, but like everything else man is messing with it.

I think you're so right...it used to be one of the most famous places in the US to always predictably experience wildfires was in CA...but now you hear of it all over like in Florida as well...So much of the US has been having drought like conditions...yet on the flip side you have places like Texas that have been drenched...even right up-state NY there's been flooding, while where I am, near NYC, nothing...hardly any rain...The result though of these fires? I think a lot of the natural animal inhabitents are confused--there areas to live are being destroyed and maybe the reason for so many wild animals roaming in human inhabited places??