This explains a lot. Most of CA's population does not live in wildfire prone zones. But most of the rural parts do. This will price them out of their homes. Parts of the central valley, the mountains, and really north California.

They also tend to be the more anti-government types. One family in an unincorporated part of the mountains refused to pay the voluntary firefighter service fee. When their home caught on fire the firefights just watched it and put out the parts that threatened a neighbor's house who did pay the fee.