Plants and animals have co‐existed and evolved with fire for millennia. As a result, species have adapted to persist to fire regimes. For example, plants can regenerate relatively quickly following a wildfire, such as those pictured near Cove Mountain (Credit: Jennifer Schweitzer), one of the areas impacted by the Chimney Tops II fire that occurred in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and in Gatlinburg, TN in November and December of 2016. How will species persist if the pressures of fire amplify under a warmer climate? To better understand this question, Santos et al. (2023) synthesize studies that contribute to the perspective of fire as a dynamic ecological and evolutionary force, discuss the importance of incorporating evolutionary concepts and perspectives to future frameworks, and provide a list of recommendations that will enable our scientific community to better understand the ecological and evolutionary consequences of fire.