Recent Forest Fire Perimeters

This is a very useful interactive map (at the link), showing how forest fire perimeters have been rapidly-expanding over the last 30 years. 2020, in particular, was a horrible year. Here is another useful map. 

Yet, I'm optimistic about the future. Some places have been burned over several times, especially in the Coast Range north of San Francisco. The mass of overgrown vegetation that's built up over the last century is being taken care of in the only way it ever could - by burning! It will be harder to sustain large fires in these areas in the immediate future. 

 Lots of areas in the Sierra ripe for fire, though. Maybe that's the area for big fires this decade.