UCLA Climate scientist, Daniel Swain talks about this exact topic during his recent interview with Adam Connover on his podcast, Factually.

Go to timestamp 17:45 and you’ll hear Swain talk specifically about how this was a unique firestorm.

Earlier in the interview (around the 12:00 minute mark) Swain points out that it has to do with the increasingly longer periods in between wet and dry periods that are occurring that contributed so heavily to the conditions for a fire of this magnitude becoming more likely to occur, especially when particularly strong Santa Ana Winds occurring this year.

Edit: Name spelling.

That is how fire travels further faster and can hop over fire breaks and highways.

The uplift caused by the fire can send heavier and longer burning embers higher, which then the wind can carry a fair distance away.

1. Make controlled burns the engineers said.
2. Create fire barriers.
3. Stop putting lots of plant life where ground fires might run thru. -All of this was said by Indians, engineers, and people from other countries where they have similar annual burn cycles. Yet here we are, “is it normal to see fire embers wafting thru the street like a lost vacationer?” So what do politicians do? Cut fire fighter funds for the democrats, and trump literally said “rake the forest to remove stuff that burns.” Like… The whole forest… The forest that is bigger than San Francisco… Are they gonna use homeless??? Cuz he’s deporting all the manual labor immigrants. Republicans and Democrats are not going to help you. They are the problem. Both need to be removed from office with extreme prejudice.