The State of Fire

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Why California Burns

By Obi Kaufmann

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Los Angeles Times Bestseller Los Angeles Daily News Noteworthy Book of 2024 2025 California Indie Bookstore Bestseller L.A. Taco Best Book of 2024 How do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope. Fire is... Read More

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"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--

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Los Angeles Times Bestseller

Los Angeles Daily News Noteworthy Book of 2024

2025 California Indie Bookstore Bestseller

L.A. Taco Best Book of 2024

How do we live with fire? From the creator of The California Field Atlas, a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope.

Fire is an essential part of California's ecology. Humans have been using it to shape the California landscape for thousands of years. But today many Californians' relationship to fire is one of fear. Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, now asks: How do we live with fire? What makes fire essential to a healthy and biodiverse Golden State, and how do we benefit from its teachings?

With the same solution-minded ethic as his much-admired The State of Water: Understanding California's Most Precious Resource, Kaufmann presents fire as a force of regeneration rather than apocalypse. He considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons we can learn from California's largest fires of recent decades.

Packed with Kaufmann's signature watercolour maps and paintings, The State of Fire confronts one of California's most pressing social and ecological challenges. From this maelstrom, Kaufmann emerges to share a deepened love for the natural world—and a refreshingly hopeful vision of California's future.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597146517

Publisher: Heyday Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 October 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Heyday Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

Collections

Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Obi Kaufmann Science & Nature

About the Author

Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water (2019), The Forests of California (2020), The Coasts of California (2022), and The Deserts of California (2023), all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com. He lives in Oakland, CA.