Length1h 47m
About this audiobook
Wildfire is one of the oldest forces life on Earth has ever dealt with, and one of the modern world's fastest-growing disasters: fire was shaping forests before the dinosaurs, yet the same phenomenon now races through suburbs, darkens cities a continent downwind with smoke, and costs nations billions a year to fight.
This book tells the whole story in plain, equation-free language. The opening chapters carry the science: how fire ignites and how wood actually burns, the ground, surface, and crown fires and their speeds, the weather that drives them up slopes and through the night, and the climate that is rewiring their seasons. The middle chapters carry the consequences: the chemistry and reach of smoke, the toll in lives and money from Black Saturday to the Camp Fire, and the ecology of a force as creative as it is destructive.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: Fire Before Us
3Chapter 2: Fire in the Human World
4Chapter 3: How a Fire Begins
5Chapter 4: The Physics of Burning
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6Chapter 5: The Types and Speeds of Fire
7Chapter 6: Fire and Weather
8Chapter 7: Fire and Climate
9Chapter 8: Smoke
10Chapter 9: The Cost in Lives and Money
11Chapter 10: Detection: From Towers to Satellites
12Chapter 11: Fighting Fire
13Chapter 12: Prevention and the Goats
14Chapter 13: Fire in the Living World
15Chapter 14: The Great Seasons of the 2020s
16Chapter 15: Fun Facts and Trivia, Weighed
17Chapter 16: Living With Fire
18Conclusion
19References: Wildfires
20Glossary
21About the Author
22Series Info
23Copyright
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