50 Best Country Songs About Fire
Country Songs That Capture the Heat and Burn
There’s a certain pull to songs that lean into fire. Not in the cartoon campfire singalong way, but the kind that makes you feel the heat on your skin and smell the smoke in the air. You hear it in a crackling acoustic intro or a steel guitar that rolls like embers under the melody. Sometimes it’s danger wrapped in romance. Sometimes it’s the slow churn of something that’s been smoldering for years. These tracks don’t flinch from the burn. They sit right in the glow, where sparks catch and everything feels one wrong move from going up in flames.
The thing with fire is it never stays still. It spreads, it shifts, it turns something familiar into something unrecognizable in seconds. You can hear that restless energy in the stomp of a backbeat or the way a chorus erupts without warning. Some songs treat it like a warning sign, others lean into it until it becomes part of the rush. You might catch the same intensity in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, but country has a way of wrapping the heat in stories you can smell and taste. There’s grit in the twang, a little ash in the harmonies.
These aren’t the kind of tracks you keep in the background. They pull you in, make you feel the sweat at your neck and the edge in the air. Some will make you want to move, others might make you want to stare at a fire pit until it burns down to nothing. Either way, these are the country songs that turn up the heat and keep it there. Here are the best country songs on fire.
Top 10 Fire Country Songs
1. 'Ring of Fire'—Johnny Cash
2. 'Kerosene'—Miranda Lambert
3. 'The Fireman'—George Strait
4. 'Standing Outside the Fire'—Garth Brooks
5. 'I'm on Fire'—Rascal Flatts
6. 'Does My Ring Burn Your Finger'—Lee Ann Womack
7. 'Feel That Fire'—Dierks Bentley
8. 'House on Fire'—Mickey Guyton
9. 'Burn'—Kip Moore
10. 'Sippin' on Fire'—Florida Georgia Line
More Country Songs with Fire Themes #11—20
11. 'Picture to Burn'—Taylor Swift
12. 'My Old Flame'—Alabama
13. 'Fire'—Sara Evans
14. 'Light This Spark'—Struggle Jennings
15. 'World on Fire'—Nate Smith
16. 'The Fire'—Chris Stapleton
17. 'Fire Away'—Chris Stapleton
18. 'After the Fire Is Gone'—Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn
19. 'Let It Burn'—Luke Grimes
20. 'Baby, I'm Burnin''—Dolly Parton
Country Songs About Passion and Heat #21—30
21. 'She's on Fire'—Hank Williams Jr.
22. 'Fire & Smoke'—Earl Thomas Conley
23. 'Fire on the Mountain'—The Marshall Tucker Band
24. 'Hot Rod Lincoln'—Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
25. 'Burnin' for You'—Blue öyster Cult
26. 'A Fire I Can't Put Out'—George Strait
27. 'Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout'—Flatt and Scruggs
28. 'Heat Wave'—Midland
29. 'Hot Mess'—Love and Theft
30. 'Firecracker'—Josh Turner
Folk Country and Rock Songs About Burning #31—40
31. 'Great Balls of Fire'—Jerry Lee Lewis
32. 'We Didn't Start the Fire'—Billy Joel
33. 'The House is Rockin''—Stevie Ray Vaughan
34. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band
35. 'Burning Love'—Elvis Presley
36. 'Light My Fire'—The Doors
37. 'Fire and Rain'—James Taylor
38. 'Play With Fire'—The Rolling Stones
39. 'Fire Down Below'—Bob Seger
40. 'I'm on Fire'—Bruce Springsteen
Country Songs About Flames and Sparks #41—50
41. 'Burning House'—Cam
42. 'The Fire Still Burns'—Jason Aldean
43. 'Like a Wrecking Ball'—Eric Church
44. 'Whiskey and You'—Chris Stapleton
45. 'I Don't Want to Be a Firefighter'—Willie Nelson
46. 'Burn Out'—Midland
47. 'When the Fire is Gone'—Alan Jackson
48. 'The Fire Inside'—Johnny Reid
49. 'Smoke'—Jason Aldean
50. 'Miss Your Fire'—Casey James
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