And that's been well established for decades. My Botany professor was from California and he spoke of this in some of our lectures. Heard it from my Silviculture professor too.

I graduated college in '96.

Fuel load had been established fact at least that long. But people don't want to hear it now. It's crazy.

Fuel load also doesn't mean that frequency of fires or where they start isn't affected by climate change. It just means theres more wood to burn once the fire starts.

Indigenous people used to do controlled burns periodically as part of taking care of their ecosystem. We stopped that so now the fires can't be contained easily.