Wow! I worry that we are surrounded by trees close to our house. I need to thin out the trees away from the house. We do get dry spells and this summer we had a brush fire just up the road about 200 yards away and I thought nothing of it but maybe I better think that over. Without much wind the local fire department just came and sprayed water on it but even so it was interesting that old fence posts along the road were in flames. Probably the wind is the main problem, almost anything will burn if you feed enough oxygen to a fire. In freshman Chemistry I tell the students "Fluorine is the Champeen but Oxygen is also mean!" meaning that oxygen is the second most reactive element (after Fluorine).

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder