[9] The Archives Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History has a collection (#1055) of souvenir postcards of lighthouses and has digitized 272 of these and made them available online.

These include postcards of Fire Island Light[10] with links to customized nautical charts provided by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

From 1970 to 1975, the lighthouse and its surrounding area were seen in the opening and closing credits sequences of the CBS television soap opera The Guiding Light.

[11][12] Some of the final episode of season 1 of TV show The Following was filmed at Fire Island Lighthouse and surrounding buildings.

[14] A 1999 Channel 4 TV series featuring Stephen Fry and called Fire Island included filming of the lighthouse.