The difference is, of course, rain. The entire Southeast is wet, wet, wet, and most of the Midwest isn't much drier. The idea that you might go a whole year wit

The difference is, of course, rain. The entire Southeast is wet, wet, wet, and most of the Midwest isn't much drier. The idea that you might go a whole year without suitable conditions for controlled burns is, well, essentially implausible. A summer, maybe once a decade. But starting around Thanksgiving and running into May or even early June, it rains and rains and rains. At some point during winter, you will be able to burn. The federal-state coordination, the federal interagency coordination, the CARB hold over things... trying to do that stuff out West is far more difficult.