Litigation Reveals Wildfire Operational Failures

Lawsuits and discovery related to major wildfires can surface concrete operational mistakes (smoldering reignitions, withheld firefighting, predeployment failures, infrastructure neglect) that change causal attribution away from high‑level climate narratives. Public officials, media and policymakers should treat litigation‑produced evidence as a distinct, often decisive corpus that must be integrated into cause‑and‑policy assessments. — If discovery routinely overturns simple climate attributions, policy and accountability must focus more on agency practices, maintenance, and procedural reforms rather than only on long‑term mitigation.