This thesis examines wildfire’s increasingly suburban character, one which has transformed the presence of flame through disciplines not limited to: forest management; building regulations; urban planning; disaster management and insurance underwriting into various forms of suppression. Rises in temperature combined with the effects of how we live, work and operate socially and professionally in proximity to forested areas are causing wildfires to burn larger and hotter, driving the ontological evolution of wildfire in new, unexpected directions. Struggling for viability in relentless cycles of burn and rebuild, these disciplines have been increasingly reliant on the production of photographic evidence to transform the thresholds of environmental and economic risk into a higher cultural tolerance for living in zones that have a tendency to burn. Photographic documentation of fire has long grappled with the difficulties of capturing ephemera that behaviourally evades documentation: fire is bright, hot and fast moving. The project recognises a history of attempts to convert  fire’s heat and visual intensity into a broad spectrum of functional imagery to improve our ability to predict how and where a wildfire might burn. The state’s appetite for technological innovation as a solution for forest management has seen an abundance of lens-based apparatus combined with software driven advancements attempt to regain a degree of order over fire’s appearance. These include: photorealistic 3D fire reconstructions; remote-sensing forest surveillance networks and  infra-red airborne hazard mapping.  In this visual ecology, conflicts between the aesthetic registers of different forms of image production fail to sufficiently align with any consistent metric of severity and therefore disrupt the potential for a cohesive contemporary environmental narrative to be formed. Confronting these forms of media, this thesis by project will leverage digital image production to examine the visual characteristics of environmental phenomena, in doing so challenging the aesthetic signature of various disciplinary coded images.