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Current National Statistics

9 Total

New Large Fires

11 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

39,566 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Friday, May 2, 2025 - 16:11

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

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Wildfire Awareness Month Tip!🔥 Taking simple steps around your home can make a big difference. Most homes that burn in a wildfire are ignited by embers. This photo from a demonstration burn illustrates the critical impact ... defensible space around your property can make. Start with: ✔ Cleaning gutters and roofs of leaves and pine needles ✔ Installing metal mesh over vents ✔ Creating defensible space by clearing flammable vegetation ✔ Using fire-resistant building materials Be Firewise. Harden your home help your community stay safe. Learn more👉 https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/fire-prevention-education-mitigation/wildfire-mitigation/home Photo by Samantha Storms, BLM.

From all of us at NIFC - Congratulations to the 2025 Smokey Bear Award winners and thank you for your dedication to wildfire prevention! 🐻🔥

It takes all of us! 🤝 Our partners with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) play a vital role in helping communities recover from wildfire and prepare for future events. Personnel from USGS focus on fire-related topics, including ... using high-resolution remote sensing to characterize vegetative fuel loads; applying the latest satellite technology to detect fires and map wildfire perimeters; evaluating best practices to reduce wildfire risks; and assessing post-wildfire flooding and debris-flow hazards.

Reliable communication is the backbone of effective wildfire suppression operations. Wildland fire communications specialists gathered last week on the NIFC campus for hands-on training on the use of new advanced communication ... kits. These kits are designed to incorporate satellite technology with state-of-the-art communication capabilities to tackle radio interoperability on wildland fires. These 10 radio kits will be distributed throughout the geographic areas to be utilized on wildland fires during the 2025 fire year. Learn more about how these kits will support fire operations on the BLM Fire blog ➡ https://www.blm.gov/blog/2025-05-06/blm-fire-tackles-radio-interoperability-wildfires 📸Photos 1 and 2 by Marshall Thompson, BLM. Photo 3 by BLM Fire.

In March, a permanent pay increase for wildland firefighters was signed into law, serving as an important step in recognizing the value of their service and unwavering dedication to protecting our nation. Read more about it on ... the DOI blog ➡ https://www.doi.gov/wildlandfire/investing-our-wildland-firefighters-path-safer-nation

Wildfire Awareness Month is here and in full swing! 🔥 As the weather becomes warmer and wildland vegetation, or fuels, begin to dry out, it is time to plan for the wildfires. During a wildfire, embers cause most home ... ignitions. Residents can harden homes minimizing property damage and protecting firefighters. Help reduce putting firefighters and communities at risk by hardening your home to ember intrusion and creating defensible space on private property. Not sure where to start? Explore tips and resources here 👉 www.nifc.gov/fire-information/fire-prevention-education-mitigation Photo by Jeff Cross.

Partners from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho are proud to once again "ring in tribute" for the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation's Bells Across America! Bells ring from coast to coast as a grateful ... nation pauses today, Sunday, May 4, 2025, to honor those firefighters who died in the line of duty. NIFC has also been glowing red all week in support of Light the Night. A loss in the firefighter community impacts us all, and they are #NeverForgotten. Video by Rebecca Paterson and Caleb Ashby, Bureau of Land Management Fire and Rhiannon Touchette, National Park Service Fire and Aviation Management. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management U.S. Forest Service

Reminders like this are happening all across the country for Wildfire Community Preparedness Day!

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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.