Even if it doesn't compare to fire risk or intensity in other regions, the occurrence of more fires that are hotter or wilder is still a big deal for regions that haven't had many in recent history.

Most ecosystems in traditional "fire country" are adapted to those fires and sometimes even need some volume fires to keep working the way they have been, with the life that inhabits them.

That's not the case for ecosystems in the Northeast. Large fires will take much longer to recover there, and traditional biomes and inhabitants may not recover from them at all. That's not only sad for naturalists, but can have pretty significant downstream effects on the human communities in the region.