With all of the recent wildfires kicking up around here, what kind of extra precaution/evaluation need to be considered when climbing? I figure sport routes with glue in bolts might be questionable, but what about quality of rock? Would the intense heat expand water in any cracks and blow rock out or what?

I think you are talking about spalling. The outer layer of the rock heats up in an intense fire much more than the underlying rock due to its poor conductivity of heat. You get sloughing of the rock. This happened during the Pass Creek fire in Lander (back in 04 or 05) to a dolomite crag called the Ghost Town. It basically ruined the cliff for sport climbing, as there are no longer any face holds. I don't know if granite or crack features are affected as much, though.

Granite can react the same way. Fires down San Diego way have done similar spalling in the past.

Not sure what the exact terms are, but thanks. I would venture to guess that different rock is affected in different ways as well (i.e. limestone, granite, sandstone, etc.)

It seems that the Hayman fire kinda cleaned up the first few pitches on the domes in the South Platte (slab).

www.mountainproject.com/v/elephant-knob/105844887
this will give you an idea about how a wild fire can affect granite

We had a fire this last winter in the Sinks that burned through a large part of the dolomite boulders below the Main Wall. This Spring I bouldered there and there was a lot of chips and flakes that had popped off along the base and I pulled several off that weren't obviously loose on the problems.

In softer stone like limestone/dolomite, I would think there is a lot more gas trapped in pockets in the stone than in a denser stone like granite and the radical gas expansion caused by the fire really blew a lot of stuff off immediately and left a fair amount of weakly adhered flakes.

Just have to be cautious and test the holds in such a case.

Thanks for the info. Wondering what eleven mile is going to like like. From what I've heard, messenger wall and turret dome may have sustained some damage. Won't know for sure until I can make a trip to the area. Wildfires here in Colorado are really screwing with my climbing season

Falling rock is the biggest concern I've had climbing the burned sandstone in Santa Barbara, CA after the Tea, Jesusita and Gap fires. Fire pretty much turns solid routes into choss piles but give it time to return to 'normal'.

Pokemon taught me that fire is not effective against rock, but I don't believe it IRL.

Elephant Knob post says it. That place looked cool from a distance, turned out to be WORTHLESS. Don't trust burned gear, metal is tempered for a reason, when it loses its temper, it's garbage thenceforth.

Fires can open up a lot of climbing too by removing a ton of brush.
Sugarloaf, Phantom Spires and Woodfords Canyon, all near SLT were all affected in somewhat of a positive way by a fire because the crags were suddenly a lot more accessible.