San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires audiobook runs 12.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Alan Sklar (about 8.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 25 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12.5 hours, it runs longer than 72% of the 5,887 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Alan Sklar
Alan Sklar narrates 147 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,402 hours in all.
- The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers
- The Ghost Map
- Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
- China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
- The Cold War: A New History
About as long, on the The Americas shelf
780 The Americas audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
- Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
- Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
- Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
- Brave Companions
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires is an audiobook by Dennis Smith: a 12.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Alan Sklar, released September 22, 2005, on the The Americas and Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Alan Sklar
- Released
- September 22, 2005
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- The Americas, Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781400171798
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires audiobook?
San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires runs 12.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.3 hours.
Is the San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires audiobook free?
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Who narrates San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires?
San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires is narrated by Alan Sklar.
Is San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.3 hours, saving 4.2 hours.