More lighting, more wildfire ⚡️

More lighting, more wildfire ⚡️

Lighting strikes over the Oxnard plain as seen from Thousand Oaks on Oct. 4, 2021. Photo by Al Seib, Los Angeles Times via Getty Images John Muir once wrote “everything is refreshed” by a summer storm in the Sierra Nevada. But then, as now, the lightning strikes that come with them pose a perennial wildfire risk. Fires raging in the Sierra foothills have burned nearly 14,000 acres, prompted evacuations and destroyed the historic Gold Rush town …