Forest Fires Cause Floods: Help prevent disasters
Night landscape poster: burning ridges glow above a river that has flooded a farmhouse and trees, with a red cross symbol in the lower left and the headline 'Forest Fires Cause Floods'. The tell is the paired images of fire and flood as one chain of disaster, with the Red Cross emblem placed in the scene.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, with State Forest Service
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, with State Forest Service. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-826 (NAID 514320).
Text on the object
FOREST FIRES cause FLOODS HELP PREVENT DISASTERS [signature:] glenn grohe U. S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service State Forest Service [imprint:] ☆U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1945—O—667492
