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* ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'': The third book in the quartet, known as either [[MarketBasedTitle ''Daja's Book'' or ''The Fire in the Forging'']], centres around the threat of fires in an isolated forested valley. Unusually, it establishes via plant expert Rosethorn that a certain level of fire is ''good'' for the forest ecosystem by periodically clearing out dead material, but a local mage has been preventing any and all fires in the area, ultimately resulting in a buildup of so much fuel that the resulting blaze threatens to destroy everything in the valley.
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* ''Literature/WagonsWest'': In ''Literature/{{Illinois}}'', none other than the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 is the cause of Toby and friends' peril.
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* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'': Canute threatens to unleash one of these in the second arc in order to [[VictoryThroughIntimidation intimidate his way to victory over the English]]. The English lords pretend to be subservient to Canute and his occupying Danish forces, but secretly support the guerrilla resistance of their own king-in-exile. Then one evening, around sundown, Canute takes one of the lords out into the lord's fields and shows him Canute's soldiers holding torches there, ready to burn the area to the ground. Canute then has the man look every which way, and as far as he can see, all over the countryside, hundreds and hundreds of more torch lights are held up, ready to go (presumably with the lords of those other lands also dragged out into their fields to witness the spectacle). Canute then lays down his ultimatum: the English can either attempt to continue their covert resistance, in which case Canute will order the entire countryside put to the torch, or they can submit for real and give up resisting him. Within a couple of months of this demonstration the English King has died of poison... er, "illness" and [[ToWinWithoutFighting the English have submitted entirely to Canute]].
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* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'': Canute threatens to unleash one of these in the second arc in order to [[VictoryThroughIntimidation intimidate his way to victory over the English]]. The English lords pretend of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercia Mercia]] try to be subservient to offer Canute and his occupying Danish forces, forces (who are in the middle of attempting to conquer England) a BegoneBribe, but secretly support the guerrilla resistance of their own king-in-exile. king. Then one evening, around sundown, Canute takes one of the lords out into the lord's fields and shows him Canute's soldiers holding torches there, ready standing next to an enormous bonfire, which could burn the area to the ground. out of control if they weren't carefully attending it. Canute then has the man look every which way, and as far as he can see, all over the countryside, hundreds and hundreds of more torch lights such bonfires are held up, ready to go (presumably with the lords of those other lands also dragged out into their fields to witness the spectacle). visible. Canute then lays down his ultimatum: the English lords can either attempt to continue their covert resistance, in which case Canute will order the entire countryside put burned without any warning or chance to the torch, save themselves, or they can submit for real turn on their king and give up resisting him.help Canute to victory instead. Within a couple of months of this demonstration the English King has died of poison... er, "illness" and soon afterward [[ToWinWithoutFighting the English have submitted entirely to Canute]].
