I ran across this article in my reading. This diagram is from that article. It is an extremely interesting diagram to me. The blue bars are the number of fire events. The blue dotted line is the MOISTURE content of the fuel that ignites into a fire.
I have stated before, many times on this blog, the best protection a forest has from fire is HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT. In the film below about the Redwood National Forest, it is very, very easy to see moisture content that keeps this forest healthy and wet. Every morning, as the sun comes up the Redwoods, bring a MIST to the area where they stand. That mist is produced by "evapotranspiration" of the tree leaves themselves. The roots bring the water to the trunk of the tree and then through a siphoning PRESSURE due to evaporation of water at the leaves, the water is carried to all the limbs, twigs and leaves of the tree.
I don't care if California only waters every lawn and drip trickles water to the vineyards, the MOISTURE of the ground and air have to meet the same level as March and April. If March and April FENDS OFF fire, then a moisture content of equal measure the rest of the year will provide the same results.
THIS CAN BE REPRODUCED IN A LAB TO DISCOVER IT'S EFFECTIVENESS, but, I already know it will work. The application of water to maintain high levels of moisture is vital to end these deadly fires. Moisture such as seen with the redwoods below produces its own rain. Rainforests produce their own high water vapor content. Brazil's forest fires are man-made, the rainforests are not capable of allowing the fire to start.
This will work and it will work better and better with every moist year that follows the initial first year.
Build desalination plants and plenty of them. I don't think there is another way. Hot dry ground and hot dry air will only beget the same year after year.
The critical issue for the Bay Area is that Diablo Winds are most frequent during the fall and in particular October when the fuel moisture content is lowest (See Figure 1 below).
As we enter the fall (click here) in northern California, one thing is one everyone’s mind. Are we going to have Diablo winds like we did in 2017? Next week marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly Wine Country Fires. Three of the Wine Country Fires (Tubbs, Redwood Valley, and Atlas) as well as the Tunnel Fire (Oakland Hills) of 1991, rank in the top twenty of California’s deadliest wildfires (CalFire, 2017). All four of those fires, with the addition of the Nuns Fire (2017) are also ranked in the top twenty most destructive fires (CalFire, 2018) in California's history. The Tubbs Fire alone burned over 36,000 acres and caused 22 fatalities. These fires were driven by extreme winds known as Diablo Winds....
