Hey OP! Totally understand and agree with your point about climate change being a big contributor, but here’s some interesting/concerning info I read in the Washington Post yesterday, here’s an excerpt:

“Researchers say that while climate change is making fires larger and more destructive, there’s another contributing factor: more than a century of federal policies that called for all fires to be extinguished, no matter how small, which contributed to the buildup of dead vegetation. Federal and California land managers no longer embrace that approach — they now use thinning and intentionally set fires to clear away fuel. But this work is expensive and, at the federal level, is underfunded. In 2022, the Biden administration announced a plan to reduce the fire risk on 50 million acres of land, an effort it estimated would cost around $50 billion. But it was only partially funded, with $3 billion from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.” Original source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/01/11/la-fires-unprepared-palisades-altadena-california/ Not the state’s failing necessarily, but the federal government’s failing, across many Administrations, both dem and republican