Forest fires don't have much of a carbon footprint because all the carbon (e.g. vegetation) is already part of the carbon cycle. Your carbon footprint is deter

Forest fires don't have much of a carbon footprint because all the carbon (e.g. vegetation) is already part of the carbon cycle. Your carbon footprint is determined by how much carbon you're adding (e.g. burning gas that was previously sequestered deep underground) to the carbon cycle. I suppose if a bunch of plastic got burned in the forest fire, that would technically be adding a carbon footprint, but it's likely negligible.