Wildland Fire News

A selection of news releases and stories related to wildland fire management. For details about ongoing wildfires, visit the National Interagency Fire Center.

A wildland firefighter on the Midnight Sun Hotshot crew checks for hot spots on an active fireline. Photo from the Coffee Pot Fire on Inciweb.

Behind the Scenes: Dispatching Wildland Firefighters Around the Country

12/19/2024

We explore how wildland firefighters and equipment are mobilized around the country to respond to wildfires.

The Line Fire burns near a community in California. Photo from Inciweb.

Behind the Scenes: Who is Responsible for Wildfire Management in the U.S.?

12/12/2024

We explore how federal agencies, Tribes, local municipalities, and private landowners coordinate in the face of increasingly severe wildfires.

Firetruck and helicopter in grassy field

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $20 Million is Available to Strengthen Local Governments’ Wildfire Response (www.doi.gov)

12/04/2024

The Department of the Interior today announced that over $20 million is available to strengthen local governments' wildfire response by converting vehicles to wildland fire engines. Applications are due by February 26, 2025.

A wildland firefighter conducts prescribed burn work on Chickasaw Nation lands. Photo by Josh Williams

Returning Fire to the Landscape

11/22/2024

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is partnering with the Chickasaw Nation to bring fire back to their ancestral home, reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires and restoring the landscape.

Group of people in white hard hats digging into ground with shovels.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Projects Stewarded by Interior Department Supported More Than 28,000 Jobs, $3 Billion to the Economy Last Year (www.doi.gov)

11/15/2024

Today, ahead of the third anniversary of President Biden signing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Department of the Interior released a new analysis that estimates that investments from the law supported more than 28,000 jobs and contributed more than $3.3 billion to the economy in fiscal year 2024.

Soldiers pose for a photo while working on the Dollar Fire of the West Mountain Complex of fires near Cascade, Idaho. Photo courtesy U.S. Army.

United in Service

11/08/2024

From the front lines to the fireline, military service creates a strong foundation for wildland firefighting careers.

A firefighter monitors a prescribed fire, a low flame burning in dry leaves in a forest.

In the News: Preventing wildfires through mitigation (www.dailycal.org)

11/06/2024

With a wildfire season that runs for nearly half of the year, the Bay Area is a hotspot for implementing and experimenting with wildfire management strategies. A strategy that has recently been gaining traction is to allow small fires to happen, but in a manageable quantity that doesn’t pose a threat to humans.

A plume of smoke rises into the sky from the glowing flames on a forested ridge.

In the News: Building Fire Resilience: How Fuels Treatments Helped During the Bootleg Fire (mailchi.mp)

11/06/2024

How strategies like thinning dense trees, clearing dry brush, and using prescribed burns were put to the test during the Bootleg Fire in 2021.

Low flames burn through dried grass in a forest

In the News: For a decade, a northern California program has built prescribed fire capacity informed by Indigenous tradition (www.boisestatepublicradio.org)

11/06/2024

Since 2014, the Klamath Prescribed Fire Training Exchange – or KTREX – has been building capacity for burning in the ancestral territory of the Karuk Indigenous people. Organizers say it’s a promising model for putting more beneficial fire on the ground amid the wildfire crisis.

Two people standing on platform above river. Fall colors and mountains in the backdrop.

Acting Deputy Secretary Daniel-Davis Visits Colorado and Nevada to Highlight Investments through the President’s Investing in America Agenda (www.doi.gov)

10/28/2024

Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior Laura Daniel-Davis visited Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge today where a new $6.5 million in funding from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda will support wildland fire management in Colorado.

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Behind the Scenes: Dispatching Wildland Firefighters Around the Country

Behind the Scenes: Who is Responsible for Wildfire Management in the U.S.?

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $20 Million is Available to Strengthen Local Governments’ Wildfire Response (www.doi.gov)

Returning Fire to the Landscape

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Projects Stewarded by Interior Department Supported More Than 28,000 Jobs, $3 Billion to the Economy Last Year (www.doi.gov)

United in Service

In the News: Preventing wildfires through mitigation (www.dailycal.org)

In the News: Building Fire Resilience: How Fuels Treatments Helped During the Bootleg Fire (mailchi.mp)

In the News: For a decade, a northern California program has built prescribed fire capacity informed by Indigenous tradition (www.boisestatepublicradio.org)

Acting Deputy Secretary Daniel-Davis Visits Colorado and Nevada to Highlight Investments through the President’s Investing in America Agenda (www.doi.gov)

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