In his 2023 book, author and journalist John Vaillant unpicks the events of the disastrous Fort McMurray wildfire in 2016, contextualizing it in light of our increasingly hot and volatile planet.

Attitudes toward climate change might be shifting, but we are not acting quickly enough.

In his 2023 book, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, author and journalist John Vaillant examines the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire, chronicling how it started and why it became so catastrophic.

Vaillant demystifies the history of climate change and pinpoints the global shifts making major natural disasters more regular and increasingly devastating.

Referencing scientists, historians, and firefighting experts, Vaillant uncovers the failings that have led to our hotter, more dangerous world and provides a clear picture of what needs to be done to halt the heating process.