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Despite a trend in recent years toward larger and more extreme weather events, 2023 and 2024 have been among the less active wildfire seasons on record by some metrics. That’s small comfort to anyone who has ever been in the path of a fire — in some cases, a burned area may need a decade or more to recover. And 2023 nonetheless had one of the worst wildfires in history, according to a recent…