[theptip]

This is a shallow take. Even on its face it’s wrong. Ending mega-fires would be an ongoing expenditure, since you constantly monitor and manage smaller fires to achieve that.

Plenty of juicy government dollars to sustain vendors in that space indefinitely.

[PeterStuer]

I partially agree, but you are ending the reasoning one level short. The government budget is a tradeoff. People react more to recent events than those far past, even if rationally they should not. So sadly, if no mega-fire had disastrous consequences, over the years there would be cutbacks, neglect and denial on mitigating this particular threat as opposed to so many others that required our recent attention.