Doing a quick check on wildfires and climate change, the articles saying the connection exists greatly outweigh the no connection articles. Global warming will increase the temperature of forests.
Firefighters build their own carefully targeted fires to create stop zones or dead zones for the major wildfire. When the major wildfire hits an area that is already charred to ruins, a dead zone, there's no more fuel for a fire and so it dies down.
When mountains are charred bare of vegetation, the water from heavy rains is not absorbed. Consequently there is a runoff of soils causing erosion.
CS Monitor: Wildfire threatening Los Alamos lab is New Mexico's largest ever
...consumed at least 103,842 acres...
...burning so hot that it was reigniting charred tree trunks from the 2000 blaze...
...wide paths of pretorched land that serve as a barrier against the forest fire's advance...
As of June 12, the latest tally produced by the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, some 4.12 million acres of forests and grasslands have burned throughout the United States this year
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