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The California Invasive Plant Council found that Tumbleweeds had no meaningful impact on wildfire risk one way or the other.
Of course a council full of invasive plants would say that
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While waving a flaming Deku stick around probably isn't safe I don't think you can blame California's wildfires on a pointy-eared kid with a floppy hat.
https://www.cal-ipc.org/plants/paf/salsola-tragus-plant-assessment-form/
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In other words, it doesn't meaningfully contribute to the overall ecological fire hazard, you're mostly talking highway veg fires and stuff, which happen with or without tumbleweeds.