I am going to try and experiment. I found with high sheep populations there is a lot of left over wool which trades for more then firewood and is highly replenishable.

If you saw this on the post it is 1 of 2 farming districts i was able to create on a random map seed i found.
I posted the seed info on the post so check it out !!
Happy building, may your citizens not starve.
As far as the other natural disasters go that's why this town has 3 chapels.

Very Nice!