Yeah…Like you my place is at real actual risk as well being in a heavily wooded area and basically up against the Pilchuck tree farm which is around 15,000 acres. I would love to get a good drenching at least once every two weeks throughout the summer…But like you, I cannot control what the weather patterns are going to be. Still will never be mad at a nice sunny stretch of weather.

Also I don't live in an urban area. My address is technically Kent but I live in a weird area of unincorporated King county. I'm up on a hill with elevations between 400-800 feet. I can drive down the streets here and my car keeps showing the address changing back and forth between Renton, Kent, Maple Valley, and Covington And we get hit by the East winds pretty hard here. A few years ago we had a brush fire between my area and SR-18 that burned a few acres.

As I recall the winter of 86/87 in Texas was quite cold with an ice storm. From Wikipedia Re.Winter 86/87: The first snows fell earlier than usual, in November, and were reported as some of the worst in memory. Extreme cold killed humans and animals. Some people got lost near their houses and froze to death very near their front doors. The winter weather even reached the West Coast, with snowfall of 3.7 inches in downtown San Francisco setting an all-time record on February 5, 1887.

https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/ Apparently, things are shifting to an El Niño. Columbia U. has their take on the unfolding change.