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Current National Statistics

4 Total

New Large Fires

4 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

68,558 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Friday, January 31, 2025 - 08:19

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

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This Black History Month, we join the nation in honoring the lasting impact of Black Americans, who have helped to shape our country and enrich our culture. We celebrate the contributions and achievements of the first Black ... parachute infantry battalion, the Triple Nickles. These brave paratroopers earned the nickname "smokejumpers" and played a key role in pioneering the practice of smokejumping. In 1945, the Triple Nickles fought fires and disarmed bombs throughout the Pacific Northwest, helping innovate many firefighting tactics along the way. Want to learn more about the history of the Triple Nickles? 👉 https://www.thenmusa.org/articles/triple-nickles/ #BlackHistoryMonth 📸USFS Photo

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Wondering what you are seeing? These MarshMasters are frequently used by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire to access wetlands for prescribed fire. In this shot you can see USFWS personnel conducting a ... prescribed burn on the Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona. 📸Photo by Luc Pierce, USFWS

Curious about equipment that's used on the fireline? Let us show off the dozers! Dozers are specially designed, heavy construction equipment that have been adapted to wildland firefighting applications. They are critical to ... wildland firefighting efforts as they scrape a fire break to slow fire spread and increase containment. There are small dozers that are effective in building fireline in light fuels on level to moderate terrain. Whereas medium-sized dozers are generally the best all-around size for fireline construction as they are maneuverable and perform well on moderate slopes. 📸Photo 1 by Ricky Lee, BLM. Photo 2 by Jeremiah Braun, BLM. Photo 3 by Drew Way.

This #InspireYourHeartWithArtDay, we're shining a spotlight on one of our own who truly goes above and beyond - Crystal, our amazing Staff Assistant for the Great Basin Smokejumpers. 🌟 Not only does she handle travel and ... payroll for the 80 smokejumpers, but she’s also a problem-solving pro and a source of inspiration with her incredible artwork. Crystal has worked here for 9 years, putting in long hours during the peak of summers, and lives for the month of March when everyone is back on base preparing for another season. She crafts ornaments and creative pieces to bring in to share her passion for art with the team at NIFC. For Crystal, the best part about working for the Bureau of Land Management Fire at NIFC is the people. The people you're surrounded by daily can make or break your day, and she's constantly inspired by the connection that the smokejumpers share! 🧡 #ItTakesAllOfUs 📸Photos courtesy of Crystal Baldwin, BLM.

#NationalFireNews: January 31, 2025. Wildland firefighters contained the Hughes and Border 2 fires in Southern California. The Palisades fire is now 98% contained. Large fire activity picked up in the Southern Area where four new ... large wildfires were reported, two in North Carolina one in Oklahoma, and one in Virginia. So far in #FireYear2025, 2,128 wildfires have burned 64,038 acres. This is the most acres burned in January in the past 10 years. Weather, topography, and fuels (a term which mostly refers to vegetation, but includes anything that can burn) are the three environmental factors that influence wildfires the most. Of these three factors, fuels are the only one that people can influence through management. When fuels are reduced or broken up on forests and rangelands, wildfires tend to burn with less intensity and lower spread potential. By managing the fuels around your home, you create defensible space. Community fuels reduction projects protect homes, watersheds, and local economies. Learn more about how to make your home and community Firewise ➡ https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/firewise-usa#preparing-homes-for-wildfire 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn

What happens after a wildfire? Take a look at suppression repair efforts after the #Border2Fire in California. ⬇️

Take a moment to review the effects of smoke exposure from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group and find some safety resources linked below. Smoke is part of the wildland fire environment. Now more than ever, firefighters and ... incident overhead should be on the lookout for opportunities to reduce exposure. Incident overhead can think strategically about assigning wildland firefighting tasks in certain work environments. 🚨https://www.nwcg.gov/6mfs/firefighter-health-first-aid/effects-of-smoke-exposure Resources ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 👉NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fires: https://fs-prod-nwcg.s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/pms420-3.pdf?VersionId=ASrtgkjznnD7Kz86usVcojvbgj7KTp2b 👉Smoke: Knowing the Risks: https://www.nwcg.gov/training-courses/rt-130/hazards/haz508 👉Protecting Wildfire Personnel from Smoke - How IMTs Address Smoke Risks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rYuFIvZmrc #FFCancerMonth 📸Photo by Annalee Graves, USFWS

'Tis the season for fuels reduction! Make sure to follow your local federal or state Facebook pages to stay in the know about what's happening near you.

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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.