This is the one subject that would get me bugging out too. I live in NW Ontario and fought forest fires in 79 while most had to evac the area. Anyone with bush experience (logging wood) was immediately drafted. Regions that have a high % of coniferous trees such as here are hard to put the flames out once they're going. Smoke will kill you long before your likely to burn. I guess there is always something that make even the best locations no longer a safe haven and so we must always have a backup plan or 2 just in case. Yet in you store things with these possibilities in mind, you should still have your food supplies to recover at a later time.

Forest fires often burn up to a towns perimeter and fizzle out due to less burnable materials. Manicured lawns are often green and moist while the forests are dry. Houses don't ignite as easily as you might think either. They often require a prolonged flame to set them alight. Streets and playgrounds don't burn either. So even though a town evacuates, everything is usually there when the folks return.

Local rivers and lakes sometimes get polluted temporarily but all seem to recover quickly. Wildlife avoids the burned our region for the first few years, but undergrowth flourishes in the replenished soils and the 2nd year seems to have nature moving back in quickly. I have lived long enough now to see full grown forest reappear to make a burned out region look as if it never saw spark since creation started.