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ELI5: What is Californiа suffering from huge wildfirеs every single year?

There are many methods to wildfirе prevention such as controlled forest burnings. Why are wildfirеs still happening and seem to be getting worse every single year?
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Several reasons. First, California is a chaparral ecology, meaning that it has dry shrubs, thickets, and trees that go through natural cycles of infrequent fires and regrowth -- some of the vegetation there has evolved to require those periodic fires.

Second, the climate in California is changing. Drier conditions and higher winds are effectively making the conditions more favorable for fires, and they are becoming both more frequent, and more severe / fast spreading.

California is undergoing a process called "desertification" - the conditions a re favoring a decline in the chaparral and replacing it with desert.