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Though much is known about fungal importance to forest health, there is very little information about factors that impact recovery times of soil fungal communities after a fire. Soil samples were taken from burn sites within one ecotype of temperate coniferous forest in Utah over a 20-year chronosequence. Sites were selected from available historic burns and were similar in plant community structure, elevation, slope, and aspect. Fungal DNA from these samples was compared to soil from paired unburned sites nearby to measure community similarity and estimate soil fungal recovery rates. Differences between paired burned and unburned sites remained fairly stable over a decadal timescale overall, but fungal community structure was found to recover more quickly in areas with a higher average annual temperature. A significant positive correlation in community recovery was seen in areas with a difference of as little as 2 °C per year. The only other environmental variable that significantly interacted with time since burn was annual mean precipitation. As global temperatures increase, alpine fires are increasing as well, but these results suggest that fungal community recovery time will be shortened under new climate scenarios.