Could Florida fires possible like calif.
 

With hurricanes monitoring drought, and living on a peninsula, is it possible???

Anything is possible, but not likely. We have lots of ponds and marshy land, and not the dry shrub stuff that CA has. And when we get high winds, chances are they are accompanied by downpours.

My personal observation - we are going to be seeing alot more CA license plates in the near future. This event for many people will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and pushes many that were thinking about moving to go ahead and pull the trigger.

Not unlike what COVID did.

all the controlled burns along sides of highways & public areas are proof that dead materials are being burned & disposed of properly. it's a comforting sight,...and smell :icon_wink:

There will be some, but it seems like most of CA's ex-pats settle in AZ, NV, ID and TX.

Back in the 90's I lived on the Fl East Cost below Cocoa. At that time there were frequent marsh fires along I-95 and 528 that resulted in road closures. I don't recall any significant marsh fires in the past several years. Fl must be doing a pretty good job of prevention.

We have a lot of water. Swamps we call “preserves” etc. That’s why we have so many alligators. And then there is rain, sometimes it floods around here in TV. I think wildfires are rather unlikely.

No nearby desert for hot winds to blow off from.
Drought conditions could raise the threat level.
No combination like California.

Our topography doesn’t lend itself to the cataclysmic fires that the west gets. An uphill, up canyon, wind driven fire is unstoppable. We just don’t have the mountains that make fighting fires in the west so hard to fight. We can get some wind driven range fires and fires in the wetlands that are difficult to fight from an accessibility standpoint, but we seldom see relative humidities in the 30 percent range. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in the teens or single digits. Take into account fuel moisture. California often experiences droughts. We’re pretty wet during our hot months.

I am a native Floridian and with the exception of the Florida Firestorm of 1998, we have never had those kinds of problems. The fires of 1998 were caused by an extreme drought in late spring of that year. In addition to our humidity, we have many natural fire breaks such as rivers and canals in addition to frequent control burns, especially down south in the glades.

I remember some smoke coming down to the Tampa Bay area due to wildfires to the northeast of there. That could have been the fires in 1998. Not sure.

Yeah, both California and Florida have insurance crises. In March, lots of people lost their houses and had their policies dropped in California. Similar things are happening in Florida. These are two high-risk states in regard to insurance.

I wondering if the county or the villages comes around and tests the fire hydrants occasionally? I remember my municipality in NJ would flush the hydrants.

Can this link be opened without registering on the X platform? This is why Californians will pack it in and move to FL.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1878727092147462411

To answer your question anything is possible.
But if you have a fear, you could lose your home to a fire, there are steps you can take to make that less likely to happen.
I would check to see if your local fire department has any suggestions.
There is a fire-retardant paint, if you go onto YouTube or Google there are videos on how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...etardant+paint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgxo...b_channel=UNSW

Florida forest fires
 

I remember that there were fires in the Everglades in the early 1990s, when Lawton Chiles was governor. Reports indicated that lightning was the likely cause.