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Current National Statistics

8 Total

New Large Fires

15 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

168,474 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 06:39

* Source for statistics is the Incident Management Situation Report published by the National Interagency Coordination Center.

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🔥National Fire Year Theme #5: Be Smoke Ready. During wildland fires, air quality can change quickly. Know your risk to wildfire smoke and plan ahead to reduce exposure. For recommended actions, as well as smoke forecasts and ... current information, visit: www.airnow.gov/wildfires/ National Fire Year Themes 👉 www.nifc.gov/fire-information/national-fire-year-themes 📸Photo by Lauren Kokinda, BLM. South Moccasin Fire near Lewistown, Montana 2021.

No April Fools' Day joke here! Released today, the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for April through July 2025. Fire activity increased across the southern tier of the U.S. from New Mexico to the southeast ... Atlantic coast as well as the central Plains into the Mid-Atlantic, and the national preparedness level increased to two (on a scale of 1-5) March 4. The greatest increase in activity was observed in the Southern Area, now at geographic area preparedness level four, with a significant fire outbreak on the Plains March 14, and numerous fires in the southern Appalachians the latter half of the month. The Eastern Area also observed a steady increase in activity with the geographic area preparedness level increasing to two March 15. Total acres burned through March of this year is 121% of the 10-year average, with an above average tally of wildfires of 170% 🔥Read the full outlook here: https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf #NationalFireNews

One of NIFC's own recently joined as a guest during the "Cup of Joe - Fighting Fires" conversation with the University of Idaho, highlighting the national role of wildland fire agencies based here along with our ties to Idaho. ... ☕https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVrxoTzwgR4

Several agencies represented at NIFC are hiring wildland firefighters across the country! Explore opportunities on USAJOBS.gov, including this one at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex. ➡Follow U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... Service Fire to stay updated on job openings and opportunities!

🔥National Fire Year Theme 4: The wildland urban interface is becoming increasingly complex for fire suppression. The last 10 years of wildfire activity has been some of the most destructive and costly in U.S. history. The ... complexity of fire suppression has increased due to urban sprawl, an overabundance of fuel (vegetation), longer and hotter summer temperatures, and extreme weather conditions. The public can find more information in regard to being prepared for wildfire season at https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/firewise-usa. 📸 Photo from Boise Lifestyle, by Ashley Loeb. Valley Fire outside of Boise, Idaho in 2024.

In 1971, 20-year-old Caroline “Cara” Peters was fired just four hours on the job as a wildland firefighter, not because she couldn’t do the work, but because the agency noted they couldn't provide separate accommodations for ... women on the fireline. Cara was told if she could assemble 12 suitable candidates, they would begin a pilot program to test their strength and endurance. She returned with 23 women, and they became the first all-female firefighting crew with the Bureau of Land Management Fire, fighting fires in Alaska for two years. Today, women continue to break barriers in fire management, serving across all levels and agencies in wildland fire management. Thank you to BLM Alaska Fire Service for sharing this story! #WomensHistoryMonth 📸Photo by David Sieber.

🔥National Fire Year Theme #3: Wildland fire programs continue to adopt new technologies to improve suppression efforts. The use of uncrewed aerial systems (UAS/drones), remote smoke and camera detection systems, improvements ... in communication capabilities, are a few of the new technologies that fire programs are using. Updated data and modeling programs are improving fire suppression and fuels management. National Fire Year Themes 👉www.nifc.gov/fire-information/national-fire-year-themes 📸Photo by Matt Dutton, BLM.

NPS Careers in Wildland Fire

Welcome to the Nation's Logistical Support Center

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The United States federal wildland fire community is a vast network of dedicated public servants, made up of the combined wildland fire workforces of the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. Together, these agencies manage wildland fire on nearly 700 million acres of federal public land, approximately one-fifth of the total land area in the United States.

NIFC is home to the national wildland fire management programs of these federal agencies, in addition to partners including the National Association of State Foresters, the U.S. Fire Administration, the National Weather Service, and the Department of Defense. These entities work together to provide leadership, policy oversight, and coordination to the nation’s wildland fire programs.

In recent years, the shared mission at NIFC has grown to include all types of fire management, including hazardous fuels treatments, integrated fire and land-use planning, and more. Fire management under this larger and more diverse umbrella aims not only to achieve fire suppression goals, but to accomplish a broad spectrum of natural resource objectives in an efficient, cost-effective manner.