Wood ignites at temperatures in the hundreds of degrees. How are some wildfires supposedly started by sunlight without human action or lightning?

Question

Wood ignites at temperatures in the hundreds of degrees. How are some wildfires supposedly started by sunlight without human action or lightning?

In: 1508

Answer 1

I know that parts of California are considered a chaparral. Those are known to be flammable. Plus its filled with plants known to purposely catch fire. There are plants that need to catch fire to spread their species. One of them is the Chamaerops humilis. It’s not really the trees catching fire, it’s these dry or oil covered plants that want to catch fire, or have adapted to thrive in environments that catch fire often.