Welcome to the forums briancfranks.

There has been a lot of discussion about fires. Type fire in the forum search box and you will see what I mean.

The most important thing seems to be, don't run the game on fast speed, especially in desert scenarios.

Kach thanks! I am running it in normal speed mode and all my buildings are at 100% employment. I have read the forums and some say add more prefects and others say the more you add the worse they become (like they don't know where to go, etc). Any more ideas?

Which scenario are you playing? Carthago? How many prefects do you have? I don't think three will be enough.

I had seven prefects in Carthago (playing on normal difficulty).

yea..I am plaing Carthago. I have added more prefects and engineers and the fire issue has stopped almost all together. I have a dozen spread throughout my land. Thanks!

Ahh, that should fix it.

Hello, I've seen this post and I've think i have a way to prevent them, I'm talking, of course, about the fire cheat, but it doesn't seem to work in my game, ¿which is the way to trigger it? I'll be mostly grateful to the one who helps me to extinguish all fires, because I have 2 cities, Cyrene and Djedu, and they are always engulfed by the fire

Welcome Augustus_Maximus.

The fire cheat won't put out the fires, but it will stop new ones happening. It is case sensitive, so needs to be typed as Fire disabled.

Have you tried the other suggestions for controlling fires? I always set the labour priorities for prefects/engineers to 'highest', so even if there is a labour shortage, the fires will be extinguished.

Hi Briancfranks; welcome to the forum.
I have found by trial and error that roughly 1 prefect for every 500 citizens keeps fires to a minimum in housing areas with an engineer for every 1000 citizens. I also place prefects and engineers in farming and industrial areas. In some scenarios, prefects can be used in multiples to fight off invaders if you are short of troops, especially in remote farming areas near invasion points.
I am still learning after three complete cycles of Caesar IV.