Forest Service resumes prescribed fire program, but some fear new rules will delay projects

The Forest Service says its prescribed fire program has a 99.84% success rate. Of the 0.16% of burns that do escape control, even fewer cause damage, said Quinn-Davidson, who is also the director of the Northern California Prescribed Fire Council.

“Why are we spending so much time focused on the things that go wrong when almost 100% of the time it goes right?” she said.