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Current National Statistics

6 Total

New Large Fires

19 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

156,778 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Wednesday, June 18, 2025 - 06:58

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

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📡 Meet Cindy, a RAWS (Remote Automatic Weather Station) technician at NIFC, whose work behind the scenes supports helps predict fire behavior and is crucial to fire management. With nearly 2,700 permanent stations across the ... country, plus portable ones for wildfires, RAWS gather critical weather data in some of the most remote places in the U.S. Cindy works to prepare and calibrate the sensors to ensure they meet national standards. Her journey began in Idaho with a student program at NIFC, followed by an introduction to RAWS technician field work in Alaska and Colorado. After relocating with her husband during his time with the U.S. Air Force, she’s back full-time, bringing deep experience and a team-first mindset to the RAWS Depot. “We’re united by mission in the fire community, the sense that your work matters," Cindy says. "We are held accountable for the quality of our work. It is important." Read more about Cindy: https://www.blm.gov/blog/2025-06-06/faces-wildland-fire-meet-matt-fraga-and-cindy-sherfick #NationalWildlandFirefighterDay #NWFFD #ItTakesAllOfUs

We’re grateful to be able to support our Canadian partners by sending some of our U.S. wildland firefighters up north to assist with wildfire response. Thanks to a longstanding agreement, we can efficiently share resources ... across borders during times of high fire activity.

Here's a fun way for your children to take part in celebrating National Wildland Firefighter Day! The Junior Wildland Firefighter Activity Book explores the role of fire in nature, fire science, campfire safety, and other engaging ... activities! 🔥 Find it here to print ➡ https://www.nifc.gov/sites/default/files/nwffd/2024/NWFFD_2024_ActivityBook-508.pdf #NationalWildlandFirefighterDay #NWFFD

Happy Father’s Day to dads at NIFC and across the wildland fire community. Today, we recognize the commitment of those balancing the demands of this work with the responsibilities of parenthood. Thank you for protecting our ... communities and natural landscapes for future generations. Photos 1 and 2 by Caleb Ashby from the Great Basin Smokejumpers family day. Photo 3 by Andrea Good.

Today on Flag Day, we honor the symbol of our nation and those who serve under it. Celebrated every year on June 14, this day commemorates the adoption of the U.S. flag by the Second Continental Congress in 1777. At the National ... Interagency Fire Center, the American flag flies high as a daily reminder of dedication and sacrifice. Photo by Caleb Ashby.

#NationalFireNews: June 13, 2025. Across the country, 15 large wildfires are being managed under full suppression strategies and one under a strategy other than full suppression, across seven geographic areas. More than 2,700 ... wildland firefighters and support personnel are currently assigned to these incidents. Since the start of the year, 31,039 wildfires have burned nearly 1.3 million acres nationwide. In addition to supporting incidents at home, American firefighters and support personnel are participating in wildland fire response in Canada, where the national preparedness level is 5. The National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group approved requests for assistance from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. U.S. resources have been mobilized to Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Support includes interagency hotshot crews, incident management teams, overhead personnel, aviation resources, equipment, and supplies. For more information on the valued, long-standing partnership with the Canadian wildland fire service and updated information about current resources involved, visit our International Support page - https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/international-support . To follow the latest wildfire updates from Canada, visit https://ciffc.net/ . Parts of the United States are experiencing smoke impacts from the wildfires in Canada. Monitor air quality and smoke patterns in your area using AirNow.gov to plan and limit your exposure. Fuels and fire behavior advisories are in place for southeast Arizona and the White Mountains/Gila Region and southcentral New Mexico Mountains. For a look at predicted fire risk through August 2025, see the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook. 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 🔥Monthly outlooks: https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf

With the approach of National Wildland Firefighter Day on July 2, we’re spotlighting some of the amazing people in the wildland fire community. Meet Matt Fraga, a crewmember of the Great Basin Smokejumpers, located at NIFC. ... Smokejumpers are wildland firefighters who get to their job sites by jumping out of airplanes at 3,000 feet. They are assigned to fires in remote country, usually ignited by lightning strikes, which engines cannot access and where hiking in is impractical. It’s a rapid form of response, meant to contain fires while they’re still small. In his second season, Matt is a newer member of the crew. In 2018, he had just completed structural fire academy when he learned about the wildland side of fire and changed his career plans completely. He worked on a contract engine, a type 2 hand crew, and spent three years with the Dalton Hotshots on the Angeles National Forest before getting his chance to rookie with the Great Basin Smokejumpers in 2024. Smokejumper rookie training is notoriously grueling – an average of 45% of new recruits graduate to full-fledged smokejumper status. “It was harder than I thought. Hard on your body, of course, but the big part for me was mental. You have to open up different parts of your brain to take in all kinds of information and then go out and apply it immediately. It’s the perfect world for a hands-on learner,” Matt says. So, what is it like to jump for the first time? “Imagine the gnarliest rollercoaster you’ve ever been on…your breath is just gone,” Matt says. “But you focus on your jump count. Your parachute opens and you go right into everything that you learned on the ground. You’re steering. We jump in two- to four-person ‘sticks’, and the first person in the stick has to create vertical and horizontal space from their jump partner, which is hard physical work. There’s a lot happening on the descent.” For Matt, being a smokejumper is an opportunity to explore and protect wild places and push himself while doing it. "It keeps you honest, keeps you fit. And it's the best way to get to work." Find this story on the BLM blog here: https://www.blm.gov/blog/2025-06-06/faces-fire-meet-matt-fraga-and-cindy-sherfick #NationalWildlandFirefighterDay #NWFFD

From resupplying crews to firefighter extrication, take a look at how U.S. Forest Service - Inyo National Forest mule packers support wildland firefighting efforts. 🔥

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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.