Screamers are the price to pay if you want to run multiple forges and campfires at once. Live a quiet simple life and you’ll hardly ever see them. Go large with industrial scale production and they will come often.
You know how in Legend Will Smith sprinkled gasoline or maybe bleach around the perimeter of his base to mask the smells and keep a low profile so the mutant vampire zombies wouldn’t find him? It’s kind of the same concept. That’s how he kept the “heat” low.
If you make a lot of noise and create lots of activity you will get noticed.