The Best Wildfires Documentaries

Disasters & Survival - 22 free documentaries about wildfires.

Start with Analyzing Portugal's Devastating Wildfire (44 min, National Geographic), then Living Through Australia’s Black Summer: Fire Country (24 min, VICE). All 22 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on wildfires is Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean.

• Analyzing Portugal's Devastating Wildfire | Witness to Disaster (44 min, National Geographic)
• Living Through Australia’s Black Summer: Fire Country (24 min, VICE)
• The Worst Disaster in Modern Canadian History | Fort McMurray Inferno (46 min, Free Documentary)
• Maui's Deadly Firestorm (53 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• This Wildfire Caused North America's Biggest Evacuation in History (46 min, Wonder)
• Firefighter’s POV Battling California Wildfire | Cal Fire (58 min, Discovery)
• Storm Rider (46 min, Real Stories)
• Liberland: Crypto paradise or libertarian illusion? (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Why Wildfires Are Becoming More Powerful (52 min, Spark)
• Wildfires Explained: What Makes Them So Dangerous? (51 min, Real Stories)
• The Secret Weapon Fighting The Deadliest Wildfires in 30 Years (45 min, Wonder)
• Mozambique: From Failed State to Vacation Paradise? (53 min, ENDEVR)
• Venice: The floating Paradise under Threat? (44 min, ENDEVR)
• The Recovery of Wildlife After The Wildfires (50 min, Love Nature)
• How Firefighters Tackle Large-Scale Wildfires (105 min, Spark)
• Toxic masculinity in Canada | Paradise Canada (50 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Mozambique: The Lost Paradise (30 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Black Summer: Surviving Australia's Most Apocalyptic Wildfires (92 min, Real Stories)
• Volunteers In Thailand & Indonesia Brave Dangerous Conditions To Stop Wildfires | No Ordinary Rescue (47 min, CNA Insider)
• The Ferocious Wildfires Sweeping The Earth (45 min, Spark)
• Paradise Found: Waldemar in Iran (18 min, ZCZ Films)
• Last Days at Paradise High (23 min, TK Films)

Top-Rated Books About Wildfires

1. Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean - View on Amazon
2. Fire Weather by John Vaillant - View on Amazon
3. The Big Burn by Timothy Egan - View on Amazon
4. Fire Season by Philip Connors - View on Amazon
5. I survived the California wildfires, 2018 by Lauren Tarshis - View on Amazon