This week, a major and potentially suspicious wildfire struck and burned the majority of vegetation at the Fentale volcano's summit. All that was not burned was the gas saturated caldera floor section where carbon dioxide was presumably at sufficient levels to impede fire spread there. While a lightning ignited fire is still the most likely explanation, it is possible that the volcano itself ignited the fire. I will explain this unlikely possibility through today's video. Thumbnail Photo Credit: This work "FentaleCrack27", is a derivative of a photo (resized, cropped, mirrored vertically (left became right and right became left), darker portions of image brightened, image color saturation increased, text overlay, GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo)) from "Craquelure dans une coulée volcanique", by: Jean Rebiffé, jeanot, 2014, Posted on Flickr, Flickr account link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanot, Photo link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeanot/17148068265, CC BY 2.0. "FentaleCrack27" is used & licensed under CC BY 2.0 by Youtube.com/GeologyHub NASA EOSDIS Worldview satellite imagery Copyright © 2012-2025 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Associated license for NASA EOSDIS Worldview: https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview/blob/main/LICENSE.md We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: Terra / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS), (Thermal signatures: Terra / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS, Aqua / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ [2] Lin Way, Juliet Biggs, Weiyu Zheng et al. Real-time Satellite Monitoring of the 2024-2025 dyke intrusion sequence at Fentale-Dofen Volcanoes, Ethiopia, 07 July 2025, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7021770/v1], CC BY 4.0. [3] U.S. Geological Survey 0:00 Fire at a Volcano 1:10 Wildfire Extent 2:34 Fumaroles 4:26 Sulfur Flows