GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fuel, Oxygen, and heat sources help the spreading of wildfires: Fuel is any flammable material surrounding a fire, including trees, grasses, brush, and even homes. The greater an area’s fuel load, the more intense the fire. Air supplies the oxygen a fire needs to burn.

Detailed explanation-2: -California is the most wildfire-prone state in the United States. In 2021, over 9, 000 individual wildfires burned in the Southwestern state ravishing nearly 2.23 million acres. California accounted for roughly 31 percent of all acres burned due to wildland fires in the U.S.

Detailed explanation-3: -Communities that are mostly black, Hispanic or Native American experience 50 percent greater vulnerability to wildfires compared with other communities.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wildfire, also called forest, bush or vegetation fire, can be described as any uncontrolled and non-prescribed combustion or burning of plants in a natural setting such as a forest, grassland, brush land or tundra, which consumes the natural fuels and spreads based on environmental conditions (e.g., wind, topography).