[UCANSEE2]

Large forest fire outbreaks occur when the forest gets too dry.

This is due to solar radiation.

If you take an oily rag, and let it get a little sunlight, it ignites by itself.

A tiny micrometeorite (which we are pelted with constantly) can ignite a forest.

When one considers that we are inside the burning corona of the sun, and that clouds are our major protection, it is a miracle we don’t have more fires.

[Rick.Donaldson]

When one considers that we are inside the burning corona of the sun, and that clouds are our major protection, it is a miracle we don’t have more fires.

we're not inside the "burning corona of the sun"... lol I assume you meant that as a figure of speech or something though???

The actual corona does extend several millions of kilometers, but it doesn't extend to earth! (Our average distance from the sun is 92900000 miles, or 149476000 kilometers.)