Brent, it just depends on the fall weather. If we get rains early, we won't have a horrible fire season (happened last year). If we get Santa Ana winds instead, we'll have a serious problem.
Heavy rains cause many good things here. But they mean that we will have an extra heavy growth of invasive weeds like Sahara Mustard, Wild Radish, Yellow Star Thistle, I can go on and on.
When that stuff seeds and dries, it makes the perfect beginning of a firestorm when there's a 50+ mph Santa Ana behind it blowing super dry heated air from the inland deserts. At least we'll have a reservoir water supply to fight the fires with....
Fortunately quail are just as smart about fires as they are about hunters!
