The research modeled fire risk, not individual fires. (pnnl.gov)
Addressing the problems is like trying to put out small individual fires in a forest that is burning. (biggerpockets.com)
This small number of individual fire years indicates a very low fire frequency of 0.04, 0.03 and 0.02 fires yr − 1 over the last 100 (twentieth century), 200 (nineteenth and twentieth centuries) and 300 years (eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries), respectively. (rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org)