[0] https://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/
> Actively managed forests sound good, but be rational.
It can work. The U.S. Forest Service does a pretty good job of managing the forests around my part of Northern Arizona. 20 years ago a fire got out of control and we lost a few homes, but they've been diligently mowing the underbrush ever since.
~5 years ago a fire started. I went to their briefing. They were honest: "this is a worst-case-scenario location for a fire", because it was burning in an area that hadn't been burned or treated in 40+ years.
They contract for companies with brush mowers to shred the underbrush, and keep track of when each section of the forest gets mowed.
No fires this summer, on account of a crazy amount of rain. It'll be 10 years before this summer's growth dies out and becomes a fire hazard.