“On Fire” is a solid if generally unsurprising drama spun out of every week’s headlines, a tale of a family scrambling to escape the wildfire that’s exploded all around their rural home in the dry, mountainous American West.

Starring and co-directed by Peter Facinelli (“Twilight”), it’s got impressive fire effects, a few jolts and moments of pathos mixed in with lapses in logic and urgency and the odd bit of over-the-top “silliness.”

May co-star Asher Angel, as the teen track-star son of contractor Dad and very pregnant Mom (Fiona Dourif of TV’s “Chucky”), has a long and fruitful career, and lots of talk show appearances where he can laugh off his signature silly moment in this generally sober-minded treatment of an increasingly common and fraught experience — escaping the flames from another blaze in an historically fire-prone, drying, climate-changed world.

“F— you, FIRE!” young Clay yells into the flames.

An opening montage of news audio captures fire coverage from Canada and the US to Australia, Greece, Turkey and Russia, which isn’t necessarily the global take that Dave and son Clay, and later Dave and wife Sarah exchange when they note the ominous towering cloud of smoke a couple of ridgelines beyond the one they live on.

“Little brush fire” comments lead inevitably to “It’s getting bigger,” and last minute fire prep — extra hoses, sprinklers, fire blankets and an Internet check of “how to fireproof your house in a forest fire” list.

Dave scrambles, Sarah tries to rouse Dave’s aged, on-oxygen-and-still-smoking father George (Lance Henriksen) to action and considers packing up to flee.

Meanwhile, things at the local 911 call center are heating up as new-to-the-job Kayla (Ashlei Foushee) tries to reassure locals that it’s all under control.

There’s an urgency to the prep — setting sprinklers on the roof, raking away acres of dry pine needles (good luck) that is never quite mirrored in the 911 call center scenes.

And once the inevitable happens, the fire blows up and cinders in, the family is separated and accidents, tragedies and think-on-your-feet changes in plans kick in. The narrative takes a few too many pauses for the story to propel us into the blaze and through it in the shoes of people who have never faced anything like this.

“On Fire” looks pretty good for a picture of obviously modest budget. They didn’t have the cash to mimic the winds and “firestorm” such forest-devouring furnaces create. I mean, Clay’s track team uniform looks off-the-rack-at-Dollar-General, after all.

But characters take the time to bicker over climate change, lament the struggle of having a single-wide home with “no insurance” in ways that many experience life in low-opportunity, rural and sylvan slices of “Paradise.”

“On Fire” isn’t all that, but all things considered — the cast is good, and the fire is impressive — it’s not half bad, either.

Rating: PG-13 for action/peril, disturbing images, smoking and some strong language.

Cast: Peter Facinelli, Fiona Dourif, Ashlei Foushee, Asher Angel and Lance Henriksen.

Credits: Directed by Peter Facinelli and Nick Lyon, scripted by Nick Lyon and Ron Peer. A Cineverse release.

Running time: 1:20