Many years have passed between WC III and the Cataclysm. How is it still on fire? It’s not only in-game, even the wiki says that it still burns to this day.
It’s… Magic fire?.. Yes, let’s go with that! It’s magic fire! It is because of magic fire that Stratholme is still burning.
It is very ineffective when compared to real fire.
Yep… Why are you looking at me like I am crazy?
Teldrassil stopped burning after 10 minutes. Stratholme still burns to this day. Blizzard is just biased against humans.
There is no source attached to that statement in wowpedia. So it might as well be dismissed. The wiki is never a primary source. Maybe the writer just wanted to mention that ingame it is still burning.
But it’s really simple: That’s just what the model looks like, and they never got around to redesigning the dungeon.
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We know that Stratholme is cursed from its Dungeon Journal entry:
Stratholme was once the jewel of northern Lordaeron, but today it is remembered for its harrowing fall to ruin. It was here that Prince Arthas turned his back on the noble paladin Uther Lightbringer, slaughtering countless residents believed to be infected with the horrific plague of undeath. Ever since, cursed Stratholme has been marred by death, betrayal, and hopelessness.
The Ashbringer comics as well refer to it as the ever-burning city.
It is acknowledged in lore that it is unnaturally continuing to burn long after the fires should have extinguished. Since it was haunted, cursed and occupied by the Scourge, it is no wonder that unordinary things happen, such as unending fires.
My actual concern for Stratholme is how it was captured by the Brotherhood of the Light and the Argent Crusade in its Cataclysm revamp, leading to the crusaders claiming they will transform Stratholme into a bastion of the Light, only for it to be completely ignored and forgotten in Legion when it becomes a zone for the Paladin player to acquire his mount and the place is suddenly infested by Scourge and Undead again.
That, to me, is far more annoying. I naively began thinking we could see a rebuilt Stratholme at the time, but alas, that seems to have been dropped.
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Ion and his merry band of dribblers have no respect for the franchise lore, history or the player base.
I’m actually surprised they didn’t drop some sort of joke Easter egg in the Legion strat scenario. Like a random Lorthemar model named Bob or something. Joke Easter eggs seems to be one of the few things left they put effort into thinking about.
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Not that impossible
In Australia there is:
The Burning Mountain - a naturally occurring, slow combusting underground coal seam
Morwell, Victoria – the Great Morwell open cut mine caught fire in March 1902 and burned for over a month. It was extinguished by breaching the nearby Morwell River with explosives to flood the mine.
In Germany, Planitz, now a part of the city of Zwickau, a coal seam that had been burning since 1476 could only be quenched in 1860.
Many coalfields in the US are subject to spontaneous ignition. The federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM) maintains a database (AMLIS), which in 1999 listed 150 fire zones. In mid-2010, according to OSM, more than 100 fires were burning beneath nine states, most of them in Colorado, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Utah and West Virginia. But geologists say many fires go unreported, so that the actual number of them is nearer to 200, across 21 states. In Pennsylvania, 45 fire zones are known, the most famous being the Centralia mine fire in the Centralia mine in the hard coal region of Columbia County, which has been burning since 1962. Burning Mine, near Summit Hill, caught fire in 1859.
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Are you willing to argue that Stratholme is built on an ever-burning coal seam?
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Well Stratholme was the northernmost and second most populous city of the Kingdom of Lordaeron… and that area was rich in minerals
Yep, plausible they bilt the capital above a deposit… without relizing it
(Hey, at least I’m trying! )
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The buildings must be built out of it as well.
If I had to choose between ‘magic’ or the theory that Stratholme is built on and made of a coal seam, I would definitely go with that latter because that is more fun.
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Would that imply that Lordaeron is Australia as well?
Damn, it would explain all the crazy carrion animals like the worms being as big as horses.
Now I want an expansion in Australia. Like both Horde and Alliance find this island and start to colonize it and the entire expansion is essentially us discovering and exploring these new lands, while fighting against giant monsters. Monster Hunter World style.
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Isn’t every expansion basically all about that?
WC3 - we found Kalimdor
Then outland, firelands, norhtrend, pandaria, broken isles, zandalar/kul tiras… 
Thylacines, megalanias, giant kangoroos, giant spiders, yes please!
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