The Forest Fire (c. 1505) is a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo.

The painting depicts a variety of frightened animals attempting to escape a forest fire.

The painting has a lot of activity, at the center of which is the raging fire itself.

[2] One of the earliest landscape paintings of the Renaissance, it includes made up animals as well as real ones.

It was inspired by Book 5 of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things.