When they happened they did always happen in September or sometimes August or October. As far back as I can remember. But I don’t recall every year there being this many fires back in the 60s and 70s.

Many of the NorCal fires were caused by dry lightning. Not some numbskull nitwit.

I think climate change is partially responsible but there is no singular reason. It’s a perfect storm of too many people building in high risk places, some levels of forest mismanagement (aka not clearing away fuel build up), not allowing fires to burn the fuel (due to trying to save people’s homes in high risk ares), clear cutting forests which allows smaller fuel sources to grow and get a foothold and a few other reasons. Anyone that thinks it’s only global warming or forest mismanagement is too locked in to their political belief narrative

And yes the air quality has been horrid the last week.