What Causes a Forest to Burn So Quickly?

Forests can burn really fast because of something called fire spread. Imagine a forest as a giant pile of leaves, twigs, and dry grass, all ready to catch fire. When one part catches on fire, it quickly heats up the air around it, making nearby plants hot too. Soon, everything is burning at once, like when you light a match near a pile of paper.

Dry forests are especially easy to burn because they don’t have much water in them. If there's not much rain and the sun is strong, trees and leaves get super dry, and that means fire spreads faster.