I thought the idea was that the trees burned and that forced everything in between to burn as well. In these fires, only the parts in between burned. It was hot enough to melt alloy wheels. Might that have been hot enough to dry out the trees? One even burned from the inside.
Here are two pictures of California fires that would seem to indicate that the fires are not all they are made out to be.
The top picture has a forest fire that forgot to burn the trees between the houses. So how did the fire progress.
The bottom picture shows a house cut through the middle. Why did the fire stop so abruptly?
Green wood doesn't readily burn. That's why firewood is left to dry for a year or is from a dead tree.
So why did we have forest fires at all, then?
I thought the idea was that the trees burned and that forced everything in between to burn as well. In these fires, only the parts in between burned. It was hot enough to melt alloy wheels. Might that have been hot enough to dry out the trees? One even burned from the inside.