Nature's wrath is a theme in There Will Come Soft Rains. The story is pepered with instances in which nature attempts to chip away at the house's attempt to exclude it, but an ultimate to-the-death finale between the house and nature is what draws the most interest.

- A falling branch causes cleaning solvent to combust, and the kitchen is instantly set on fire. In is important to note that the cleaning solvent causes the house’s eventual demise, evidence that Bradbury was very tongue-in-cheek when writing how the cleanliness-obsessed house was reclaimed by nature.

- The fire “spread on the linoleum, licking, eating under the kitchen door” as the house desperately tried to save itself. It shut automated doors and employed its army of mechanical rats and mice to try and extinguish the fire with water. The fire beat these defenses as “ten billion angry sparks moved with flaming ease.”