The good old days for Fire Apocalypse were the Thirties and Forties.

Burning the forest fuel load is basic recycling and suppressing that is coming back to bite us after a long downturn since the thirties and forties.  You're in favour of recycling, right?   And you don't wan't super fires whose great heat sterilizes the forest floor, right?   A century ago, we were seeing 20 to 50 million acres burn every year, not two million.

"Academics believe that between 4.4 million and 11.8 million acres burned each year in prehistoric California."