All bets are off when the Santa Ana winds arrive.
Topography-dominated fires are impacted heavily by features in the landscape, like slopes. For instance, if you have a fire start at the bottom of a canyon, it's going to shoot up the canyon faster than it would downhill, because fire likes moving uphill.
If you have strong winds, then you can have embers from that fire thrown a mile plus away, making it all but unstoppable.“If you have no wind, no slope, and you just had a flat field of grass a foot tall, it would burn in an ellipse, a donut. But you put a little bit of wind behind it, it’s going to be an egg,” said Smith.The Woolsey Fire was a wind-driven fire that tore through the Santa Monica mountains in 2018.
That said, when 70 mph fall winds start blowing with 5% humidity, our landscapes will dry out quickly and easily be able to carry scary blazes.
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