Wildfire scientists brace for hotter, more flammable future as Paradise lies in ashes

Wildfire scientists brace for hotter, more flammable future as Paradise lies in ashes

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/us/california-wildfires-climate-weir-wxc/index.html 

Six years of drought, a pine beetle infestation and generations of forest mismanagement means there are 129 million dead trees in California, most of them on federal land. But until they burn, there is much more profit to be made building houses than clearing trees.

"In this area something like 25,000 houses were built in the last 10 years and in the same time, 20,000 houses have burned," Kearns says. "In the past we might have managed fire thinking about the past and a lot of, you know, a lot of natural hazards have been viewed that way sort of through the lens of history."