Wildfires are no longer confined to remote forests and hillsides, as the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Washington, has made devastatingly clear. The fire jumped the Spokane River from Riverside State Park, tearing into the Indian Trail neighborhood and forcing widespread evacuations across the city’s northwest corner. The Old Trails Fire was one of three fires to strike the Spokane area, alongside the Autumn Lane Fire in the Suncrest area and the Fairview Fire in Mead. The Indian Trail neighborhood, largely developed between the 1980s and 2010s, represents a broader pattern of suburban expansion into fire-prone landscapes across the American West. Like many communities now grappling with wildfire risk, Indian Trail was not traditionally flagged as a high-danger zone, yet it burned rapidly under the conditions that day.