For the life of me I don't know why you are arguing this as if it's a good thing. Ask any firefighter would he rather, strictly in terms of forest fires, have drought conditions or normal rainfall? If there's normal rainfall there will be enough moisture in the forests to lessen, or mitigate, the intensity of forest fires. Not to mention that all the serious fires you've had in the drought have burned up a lot of fuel on the forest floor. Be thankful this is so instead of trying to get bragging rights for the most bad ass fires of any state.