I’m not completely sure about this, during the summer we get tons of warnings about protecting ourselves from the sun, but once I was burn with hot oil while cooking and no one in the hospital told me anything about skin cancer risks.
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Burning yourself technically can (anything that requires wound healing – and thus more cell division – very slightly raises your risk of cancer).
But it’s a lesser issue than getting a skinful of ultraviolet radiation. And it happens way less often. If you were getting burned or carved up a couple times a week for most of your life, you would have a higher (but still low) chance of getting cancer. But you’d also probably have some more immediate problems.
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