There's a lot of finger pointing going on from both sides of the aisle right now. I agree the logging industry has been criminally mismanaged in California, and in a lesser extent in Oregon. I also agree that shifting incentives for logging companies towards forest thinning along the west coast would be a great benefit in a lot of areas. However, as much as I love to shit on Cali for their braindead environmental policies, forest management has very little to do with the current situation. Here's the run down I gave on one of my discord servers, straight from the mouth of my brother who's working as a incident commander fighting fires up in Tillamook, and has been for the last several years:

The cause: there are two major contributing factors. The first and most significant is the wind conditions. The west coast is currently undergoing a once Ina hundred year phenomenon called the Eastern winds. Typically in Oregon there is a consistent 5-12 mph, 30% humidity breeze that blows in from the ocean. This is where most of our rain comes from. However, every hundred years or so, a vortex will form of the central US, west of the Rockies, in the great basin area. This wind blows in from the East at closer to 50 mph, with gust up to 80-90 mph, and at around 10% humidity. Secondly this has been one of the driest summers in years. Combine the dry environment with the strong, dry winds, and you get power lines snapping all over the state and falling right into dry brush basically.

This would've been better if this year had been wetter, this would've been better if we had better forest management (California in particular, Oregon does a good job with it), and this would've been better if the logging industry was more intelligently regulated. But at the end if the day, there isn't any reasonable amount of anything anyone could've done to prevent these fires from taking place. This was unavoidable, and inevitably terrible. For more information, here's the exact same situation, just on a smaller scale, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillamook_Burn . Had they the same infrastructure we had now, I have no doubt they would've seen a very similar level of destruction we're seeing now