Rain does not seem to help put out forest fires?

[Fox_NS_CAN]

Can't be more clear, it doesn't help put out the fire, which you said.

If you are putting out a fire, and rain slows or halts the spread of the fire, is it helping you? Or is it not helping you?

 

[jcitron]

Not related to rain but...

"If anything the forest fires should be toned down a bit"
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There is a mod specifically for that too, you can set the spread rate.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=814903880

Yes definitely! They are way too much and way too extreme. Maybe there should be a slider which controls the intensity of forest fires because there's going to be someone who is going to complain the fires aren't extreme enough.

 

[Fox_NS_CAN]

I don't mind so much when it tears through the wilderness, but when you essentially have a small inner city park with a handful of trees go up like a ton of dynamite, it seems a bit ridiculous.

 

[nyah]

If you are putting out a fire, and rain slows or halts the spread of the fire, is it helping you? Or is it not helping you?

It seems counter-intuitive but the link I posted suggests that rain doesn't help in the task of forest fire prevention, and in fact hinders. This is because when the rain dampens down a fire caused by a lightening strike it makes it much harder to spot, meaning that once the scrub has dried out the fire is able to restart seemingly at random sometimes several weeks following a storm.