Why can’t we build fire hydrants around areas where it is susceptible to wild fires?
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Wildfires occur in places where it gets dry. By definition, there is very little water around those places (at least during times when wildfires occur). So you’d have to pipe it in from somewhere – probably somewhere far away. And you can’t just have a single pipe to one location in a forest. You’d need fire hydrants covering the entire forest for them to be useful, because fires can start or spread anywhere. That means many many miles of plumbing, pumps, etc. Basically you’d have to build a city-level water system underneath a whole forest. That’s just not feasible or cost-effective.
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