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Current National Statistics

15 Total

New Large Fires

50 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

330,081 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Saturday, March 22, 2025 - 06:38

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

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A timely example from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire where wildfire was halted from forward progress after meeting up with landscape previously treated with good fire! ⬇️

#NationalFireNews: March 21, 2025. Fifteen new large wildfires were reported yesterday in the Southern, Rocky Mountain, and Eastern areas. Fifty large uncontained fires are burning in 16 states, 23 are burning in Oklahoma. Nearly ... 2,100 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents across the nation. In Fire Year 2025, 11,912 wildfires have burned 396,631 acres across the United States. This is above the 10-year average of 7,157 wildfires and below the 10-year average acreage of 541,795. A fuels and fire behavior advisory has been issued for the Southern Great Plains and adjacent areas, involving portions of four states and three geographic areas. This area has already experienced multiple wildfire outbreak events in recent days, and high-risk conditions are expected to continue into April. This advisory is posted on the NICC Fuels and Fire Danger webpage. ➡ https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/predictive-services/fuels-fire-danger The 2025 national fire year themes focus on keeping firefighters, support personnel, and the public safe, working together to fight wildfires, using new technology, understanding how homes and wildfires are connected, reducing smoke impacts, and being responsible when enjoying public lands. Explore the 2025 national fire year themes by visiting➡ https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/national-fire-year-themes 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Photo one by New Mexico Forestry Division. Photos 2&3 from InciWeb on the Pauline Fire in Texas - Texas A&M Forest Service.

Happy Spring Equinox! In the Northern Hemisphere, flowers are beginning to bloom, trees are beginning to bud, and there's a sense of renewal in the air. As we continue to approach longer and warmer days, this is a great time to ... add some outside "spring cleaning" chores to your list to prepare your home for wildfire. 🌻Tips from National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)🌻https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/firewise-usa#preparing-homes-for-wildfire 📸Regrowth on Charles M. Russel National Wildlife Refuge after a wildfire, photo by Jen Jewett, USFWS.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a.... weather balloon? 🌦🎈 Twice a day, every day, the US National Weather Service Boise Idaho releases a weather balloon to collect weather data. A weather instrument called a radiosonde is ... attached to the balloon, it measures temperature, moisture, pressure, wind speed, and wind direction. All critical information to make an accurate forecast! These balloons are filled with hydrogen and can rise as high as 120,000 feet above the earth's surface. The NWS Boise is one of 90 upper air measurement sites in the United States, and there are roughly 900 locations worldwide that release the balloons twice a day. What's a radiosonde? 🌦 https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/upperair/radiosondes 📸Photos by Andrea Good, BLM.

Here's a few tips on how to recreate responsibly while you're out enjoying your public lands! 👇

Take a look at this important information from the U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) about preparation and evacuations in the event of wildfires. ✅Safety resources: https://www.weather.gov/safety/wildfire 🛑Current red ... flag warnings: https://www.weather.gov/

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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.