It's the water that allows the fuel build up though. So a drier California might actually not burn as much, because, as the article points out, there's not muc

It's the water that allows the fuel build up though. So a drier California might actually not burn as much, because, as the article points out, there's not much to burn in a desert ? Also, this being more about human behavior, people might be much less interested to build in a desert (in this case, I doubt it, see also : Saudi Arabia). (Up to a point of course, worst case climate change scenarios involving these latitudes becoming uninhabitable in the next centuries.) Otherwise, I was wondering whether, under a still "wet" California, but under still mild climate change, the more frequent both rains and droughts, might increase the frequency of firestorms just high enough so that humans actually start taking them seriously. (EDIT : And looks like they already did, if those 2007 building code changes aren't just for show ? How is the correlation between the post-2007 buildings and those that survived firestorms?)