Had a lot of fun with this one, and eventually got the blessed RNG to save more than half of my crop!

I enjoyed playing around with this! My only complaint is how cruel the starting seed can be sometimes. Unless there's a way to mitigate certain situations that I just didn't figure out, I was a bit drawn to refresh until I got a better starting seed. Cool stuff though, really nailed that theme!

Winning entry here having kept it short on nearly every axis! Now if only there were a game where the tiles could be swapped to fight the fires somehow …

What a fun little thing to play with! Cool example of interesting situations from simple rules.