What makes the west different is that it historically should have been burning, and yet those burns were artificially prevented for a century. In the east, the

What makes the west different is that it historically should have been burning, and yet those burns were artificially prevented for a century. In the east, the forests were mostly cut down for agriculture, and have only returned in recent decades because agriculture shifted to the midwest. So while the east will have wildfires, I don't think they'll have the bonus severity of western wildfires because there hasn't been a century of buildup.