Every year is a bad fire year.
In my former life when I lived in Kali Ca. Forestry Dept. (CDF)would send out a press release in late spring, early summer, just before state budget approval, predicting a bad fire year. If it was a low moisture year, its dry and will be a bad fire year, if it was a wet year there was lots of vegatative growth and when it dries it will be a bad fire year. What a bunch of whiners.
In the SW many of the areas are fire climax plant communities, it is normal and natural fire fires to occur periodically.
Unfortunatly in many of these areas peole have built houses and losess can be devastating.
from the "Heartland of Wyoming"