Besides, there s too much wood on the market already. Guess it ll just have to lay there and dry out. Well, there s 187,000 acres of Christmas trees just waiting to burn. In fact, over half of the US-side of the wilderness was actually affected very little. Some other entry points can lead to damaged areas, but don t have to.
Forest fires behave by their own set of rules.
The areas outside of the storm zone have no more or less probability of having a fire start than in any other year. In most cases, the burn will be less than an acre. On the other hand, the ecology of the damaged areas has changed. Without trees to shade the ground, soil temperatures rise. This dries the soil at a much faster rate.