As California is living through the most dangerous time of the year for wildfires due to dry and windy conditions, experts say a trio of factors make America’s most populous state more at-risk than ever. Despite several recent wildfires outside of San Francisco and Los Angeles, there have been no significantly deadly and destructive blazes so far in 2019. Nonetheless, the long-term trend in the Golden State is toward bigger, faster-moving and more destructive wildfires, due to a combination of overgrown forests creating more fuel, climate change that causes higher temperatures and less snow, and housing construction in fire-prone areas. “There’s no simple problem and no one simple answer,” said Max Moritz at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “It’s all of these things mixed together.” …State and federal foresters have ramped up the use of controlled burns and also increased logging to help thin trees… But it has yet to make a serious dent in the problem. [a WSJ subscription is required to access the full story]