kissane, (edited ) Like so many other climate-change-fueled phenomena, the Hawai'i wildfires are horrifying in their immediate reality + terrifying in what they suggest about our futures. This from 2021 is the best explainer I've found about what's made the islands so susceptible to devastating fires.
(Tl;dr: It's not just climate change, it's also introduced grasses and other ecological meddling.)