Established in January 2026, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service represents a historic modernization of federal wildfire management within the Department of the Interior.
By unifying wildland fire management across the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Office of Aviation Services, Office of Wildland Fire, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of the Interior is building a more efficient, effective wildfire response system that it is better equipped to protect lives, communities, and ecosystems.
The U.S. Wildland Fire Service works to reduce wildfire risk through proactive fuels management, creating fire-resilient landscapes, advancing wildland fire science and technology, promoting fire-adapted communities, and responding to wildfires in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and Tribal, state and local partners.
