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A useful reminder to us all , additional information and resources available online at the National Fire Chiefs Council or with your local Fire and Rescue Service ........
Certainly coniferous woodland like the plantations of pine that cover large areas of the north of England and Scotland would burn like that. Once it makes the leap to the canopy then it’s hard to stop. There was an area just east of a town called Llandovery which isn’t too far away from here where the plantation burned during the first covid lockdown. That was blamed on “wild campers” it was only about 200 acres but it had been beautiful before it burned.Have been watching emergency responses to wildfires in that scrub around the Mediterranean. With climate change this is going to become a growing threat to the temperate zone too.
I'm not sure whether your woodlands would carry fire between the larger types of trees, or whether the scrub ever dries out sufficiently but bush fires are a very immediate and destructive impact of climate extremes. It takes a whole different knowledge and understanding to manage fire at a landscape scale.
Alan.