Dark Days at Noon: The Future of Fire

The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent’s forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate.

Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from before European contact to the present, in the h...