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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You notice you don’t hear of wildfires in Arizona, Nevada, or Texas despite being dryer  than California [/quote]

Texas 2024 immediately came to mind ( https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-fire-smokehouse-creek-windy-deuce-containment-update/)--made national news I believe those fires were in rural areas that were flat, geography matters. 
AZ Dept of Forestry says 2,520 wildfires in AZ in 2020
Nevada number of acres burned from 2000-2018 was double the number burned from 1980-1999 https://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Research/Documents/Wildfires-in-Nevada-2020-FINAL.pdf

There are many factors involved
West Texas and the Panhandle are dry, much of Texas gets far more rain
Geography as well as weather patterns 
how much development there is in areas subject to fire (iirc the 2024 Texas fires were in pretty rural areas)--and that also affects news reporting since fires that threaten or destroy cities, towns, and homes get way more press
--the biggest fire in AZ history (2011) burned 539,000, but it was a wilderness area and only 32 houses destroyed. 
--biggest in TX Smokehouse Creek Fire 2024 burned over a million acres but only 30 houses destroyed
--Biggest in NV Martin Fire 2018 439,000 acres, one building (not a house).

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I live in AZ. There are wildfires every year. Not this magnitude which is why they’re not national news but there are fairly large wildfires every single year. Another big difference is they are generally not in populated areas so not as much media attention. [/quote]

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