<p>Green criminology examines how human activity harms living entities, including ecosystems, humans, and nonhumans; how those harms are produced; and the roles of state and non-state actors in manufacturing environmental harm. Given these interests, the field provides a framework to interrogate how social structures may produce environmental harm through wildfire events. I emphasize how green criminology challenges three common assumptions characteristic of existing wildfire research: the definition of criminal activity, identification of fire victims, and exclusion of human activity from nature. Based on these challenges, I outline three theoretical traditions found within the green criminology literature, state crime, state-corporate crime, and the Treadmill of Crime, to highlight their ability to better understand the broader context where wildfire occurs. Further, I provide three examples of scholars from a varietythese theories applied to wildfire events to demonstrate how green criminology provides an innovative perspective of wildfire based on analyses of powerful institutions and structures.</p>