Is there anything stopping me from an engineering standpoint installing a water tower on my property and making sprinklers around a radius of my home to drench the area in case of wildfire?
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You can plan for wildfires and there are various vegetation that will take awhile to get hot enough to burn. Problem with some wildfire prone areas is the state doesn’t actually manage the risk in forests, removing of old dead trees which burn at lower temperatures than living healthy trees. Add that to the past century of 100% suppression which had left tons of fuel laying around that would have been burnt away in previous seasons has added to the problem and changes to what trees actually makeup to the forest, there is actually several year gap were sequoia didn’t give off seeds since they use the heat from the fires clearing the ground for the seedlings to be able to grow.
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