A thousand years ago California had droughts lasting centuries. This article puts things in perspective re. wildfires: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a

A thousand years ago California had droughts lasting centuries. This article puts things in perspective re. wildfires: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112707004379 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03781... Before the 1800s, 1.8 million hectares of Californian forest burned each year.