Recent intense fire seasons in Australia, Borneo, South America, Africa, Siberia, and western North America have displaced large numbers of people, burned tens of millions of hectares, and generated societal urgency to address the wildfire problem (Bowman et al. 2020). Nearly all terrestrial ecosystems, however, burn with some degree of regularity, timing, and intensity; fire is a natural process. Wildfires are strongly influenced by climate and weather, which in turn shape the availability and flammability of fuels (Abatzoglou and Williams 2016). Yet rapid climate change is interacting with land-use legacies (eg fire suppression), transforming both wildfire and ecosystems (Coop et al. 2020; Hagmann et al. 2021). Like misinformation about climate, misinformation about wildfire has flourished in the media and in political discourse.