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Don’t really understand this comment. I assume more fires are started by careless smokers and idiots with BBQs, but that doesn’t meant that over-confident twats with camping stoves don’t also light the place up every now and then. If there is a fire ban in place you shouldn’t be using a naked flame for any reason, regardless of how Bear Grylls you think your camping skills are. If a concerned local asks you to put your flame out, then maybe think about deferring to local knowledge and not being a dick. And if you think that the conditions are tinderbox enough that locals will be concerned enough to tell you to put your flame out, maybe that’s an indication of something?
Eejit-
Lightning is the most common cause of wildfires. Global warming means more lightning, longer dry seasons, more wildfires, which will be bigger and longer. There's almost nothing we can do about it. That's something to get agitated about.
Careless people are another thing to worry about. But I don't think a very careful person doing this is a concern. https://youtu.be/6IO1dLvMBno?t=659
Locals get worried whenever they see someone wild camping because they've had experience of drunks leaving a mess, dogs chasing livestock etc. Doesn't matter if it's wet or dry, they still worry. So sometimes they check on you during the night, waking you up by poking a torch in your tent. Or they ask the police to do it. It's not very nice. I prefer to be discreet and leave no trace. They don't bother me and they don't worry.
nick_h.
We should start a petition to ban the leading cause of wildfires.