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Current National Statistics

2 Total

New Large Fires

11 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

467,143 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 - 09:00

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

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Here's an inside look at recent training at the NPS Structural Fire Academy! The National Park Service protects the resources entrusted to its management, including buildings and structures, irreplaceable cultural resources, ... valuable property, and infrastructure. The Structural Fire Program is an important piece to National Park Service Fire and Aviation Management.

The Great Basin Smokejumpers were recognized as Community Heroes at Friday night's Boise State Football game! Based out of NIFC, these smokejumpers provide rapid response to wildfires in the Great Basin area. NIFC is lucky to be ... located in a community that is exceptionally supportive of wildland firefighters, such as the City of Boise. With Boise State University just a few miles down the road from our campus, this recognition was a great honor. Thank you to BSU, the fans, and the community for the welcome and support! #ThankAFirefighter

Great Basin Smokejumper Training 2024

We are sending our sincerest condolences to Jared's family, friends, all of BLM Idaho Fire and the Bureau of Land Management Fire. We thank Jared for his service in the Army and also with the Snake River Hotshots. The wildland ... fire community will always remember you. #NeverForgotten

Apply to join us at NIFC as an Inventory Management Specialist! The Great Basin Cache is an 80,000 square foot cache with an inventory of over 1,800 items. The cache supplies resources to the Great Basin area, which includes ... Utah, Nevada, southern Idaho, and western Wyoming. #ItTakesAllOfUs #WeAreBLMFire

In #FireYear2024, there now have been 30 public drone incursions reported. Wildland firefighting aerial operations were shut down 18 of those times. That means firefighters on the ground weren't able to receive the bucket drop ... they were requested in a timely manner, or the airtanker ready to drop retardant was diverted and unable to facilitate the drop. Please always #KnowBeforeYouFly. When you fly, we can't.

The National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook was issued today by Predictive Services at NIFC. Look ahead at the last two months of the year, and then into #FireYear2025. After fire activity decreased the latter half ... of September, another increase in fire activity occurred the first half of October, as the National #PreparednessLevel rose from three (on a scale of 1-5) at the beginning of the month to five October 8. This escalation back to five represented the first time the National Preparedness Level increased to five on three separate occasions in the same fire year. Fire activity then greatly moderated the latter half of October, with the National Preparedness Level decreasing to four October 18, three October 22, and two October 29. While most geographic areas followed this overall trend in activity, the Southern and Eastern Areas remained moderately active through the end of October. #FireYear2024 (year-to-date) annual acres burned for the US is above the 10-year average at 124% of normal, but the national year-to-date tally of wildfires remains below average, near 93%. 🔥Read the full outlook here: https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf #NationalFireNews

Somehow November is upon us! The month of November is #NationalGratitudeMonth and we are jumping on the opportunity to continue to emphasis our gratitude for wildland firefighters and support personnel. Throughout the year, the ... support from communities around the nation hasn't gone unnoticed. Signs thanking firefighters were placed along highways, in front yards, and on local businesses. While firefighters battled the #BenchLakeFire, community members from Stanley, Idaho placed this sign along the highway to show their gratitude. Wildland firefighters have worked tirelessly all of #FireYear2024 to protect our communities and natural resources. Take a moment to #ThankAFirefighter this month as we lead up to Thanksgiving! 📸Photo by Piper Brandt, BLM.

Welcome to the Nation's Logistical Support Center

Support Center

The nation’s federal wildland fire community is a large and complex organization across the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. These agencies manage wildland fire on nearly 700 million acres of federal public land, or one-fifth of the total land area in the United States.

NIFC is home to the national fire management programs of each federal fire agency, along with partners including the National Association of State Foresters, the U.S. Fire Administration, and the National Weather Service. A Department of Defense liaison was added as a permanent partner at NIFC in 2008. Working together, these partners provide leadership, policy oversight and coordination to manage the nation’s wildland fire programs.

In recent years, the role of the agencies 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 umbrella is designed to achieve not only suppression goals, but to accomplish a broad spectrum of natural resource objectives, and do so in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

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