Abstract: Fire has a wide impact on climate, biogeochemical cycle and human health. In order to avoid the interference of human activities, to grasp the true relationship between paleofire, paleo vegetation and paleoclimate as a whole, and to provide a framework for further research, this paper focuses on the glacial—interglacial time scales, collates the paleofire information in deep sea sediments, lake sediments and loess, and discusses them with the corresponding paleoclimate and paleo vegetation conditions. We summarize the fire regime in different regions on the glacial—interglacial time scales, and analyze their similarities and differences and their causes. In deep sea sediments in different seas around the world, there are no uniform rules and explanations of paleofires indicated by black carbon records and there are regional differences in natural fire occurrence mechanisms. The fire activity reflected by the long- term lake records is more consistent, and more long- term lake sediment researches in the future can add strong evidence to the orbital driving research of fire activity. There are different views on the evolution of the glacial—interglacial fire in the loess. This may not be the regional differences in fire performance, but the choice of different fire proxies. The black carbon mass deposition rate in the loess may more accurately reveal the history of ancient fires.