About the possibility of fire following a root and coming up a distance from the stump: It can happen! I suppose it depends somewhat on the type of wood/roots involved and also probably on how wet the ground stays.
About 50 years ago, my Dad did some clearing and burned a bunch of brush and slash piles in the late Fall of the year. Under a couple of those piles were pine stumps. The piles burned just fine and the stumps seemed to burn away pretty well too and it appeared that the fires were out. Winter came and there was the usual snow cover for several months and finally Spring came and the snow melted. After it dried out a bit we found a number of small fires that had started in the drying forest duff. These fires were at least 50 feet from where the burn piles had been. It was still too wet for the duff to really get going, but we spent most of a day digging out the small fires. It was obvious that fire had followed pine roots underground all Winter. The tunnels the burned roots left in the ground were like baked bricks in our clay soil.
After that, we were very careful to never make burn piles over stumps. If we had not noticed the many small fires when we did, or if it had been dryer with a bunch of wind, we could have had a real forest fire in what was probably April or early May. We seldom have any worries about forest fires except in July through early October.
If stumps are in my way, I usually dig under them, cut some roots and pull them out with the tractor. Generally, it isn"t that much of a job. But I am generally dealing with pine stumps...maybe it would be OK to burn stumps from other kinds of trees. Good luck!
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