Probably looking at it similarly but slightly different lens. My take is that wet years trees don’t die off in large numbers. Drought years kill enough trees th

Probably looking at it similarly but slightly different lens. My take is that wet years trees don’t die off in large numbers. Drought years kill enough trees that the forest can ignite. The death of the trees a few years ago allowed the fast growing underbrush to become big enough to create the problem there. The dead trees remain to move the problem up. The living trees are engulfed by hot and long burning fires that surround.