Maybe the answer is to vote for government that encourages the removal of forest fire wood fuel from the forest floor?
The best thing to do regarding forest fires is,... nothing.
Yes, nothing. Humans have a nasty track record of trying to decide what’s best for nature and when that happens, she strikes back with a vengeance. Keep in mind that what’s “natural” to nature isn’t always what we picture it as “natural”. Forest fires has always been a part of the ecosystem and it is actually healthy. We humans just don’t like the terms and decided to alter it.
Case in point, years ago, the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 was partly a result of over management of natural fires which didn’t get rid of overgrowth and altered the food chains in which wildlife depended on young shoots which grows in cleared areas.
The Paradise Fire is a classic one that people could relate you closely. Years before developments in that area, the fires would have been permitted to burn through but due to human encroachment, the policy to suppress any close fires built up fuels over the years near developments and thus, creating a massive tinderbox which exploded tragically.
Sound practices in areas next to populations would be to thin out “ladder” fuels and to leave “islands” of untouched vegetation to provide homes to wildlife. Of course, there’s another topic regarding fire breaks and defensive perimeter around structures.
