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Coordination and cooperation in wildland fire management.
Current National Statistics
9 Total
New Large Fires
50 Incidents
Large Fires Being Suppressed
1,009,552 Acres
Burned in Large Fires
Last Updated:
* Source for statistics is the Incident Management Situation Report published by the National Interagency Coordination Center.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire Wildland Fire Apprenticeship Program builds future wildland fire leaders through a mix of classroom education and on-the-job training. Check out this great story about William's time with ... the Teton Interagency Helitack Crew!
#NationalFireNews: July 18, 2024. Currently, 57 large active wildfires are currently being managed nationwide, and have burned 1,009,552 acres. Fire managers are using full suppression strategies on 50 of these wildfires.
About ... 19,800 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 24 complex incident management teams and 6 Type 1 incident management teams.
The Great Basin Coordination Center's predictive services staff have issued three fuels and fire behavior advisories for #Nevada, Southern #Idaho and #Utah and #Arizona Strip. There is also a fuels and fire behavior advisory in effect for #California. Residents, travelers, or workers on their way to any of these states should be advised and familiarize themselves with the elevated risks.
Looking for information on a specific wildfire? https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/ is a good place to look. If you don't see the fire you are looking for there, try contacting the local jurisdiction for information. If you are in California, it may be https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents. Looking for information about air quality and smoke? Explore https://fire.airnow.gov/. An abundance of information tools are available through https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/predictive-services/weather.
More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn
📸Photo 1 #DeadmanFire, photo by USFS. Photo 2 on the #LoneRockFire, from InciWeb. Photo 3 on the #GraffPointFire from InciWeb.
Congressman Mike Simpson and his staff visited Redfish Lake Lodge in Stanley, Idaho yesterday for an overview of the #2024BenchLakeFire. The U.S. Forest Service-Sawtooth National Forest provided an close-up look at structure ... protection efforts in this popular vacation destination. #FireYear2024
#NationalFireNews: As of today, July 18, the national #PreparednessLevel has increased to PL5.
Significant wildland fire activity is now occurring in most geographic areas with a high potential for additional large wildland ... fires to emerge. National resources like hotshot crews, airtankers, smokejumpers and communications equipment, are heavily committed and the National Interagency Coordination Center is coordinating requests for these resources with geographic area coordination centers. Active geographic areas are intensively engaged in prioritization of incidents and reallocation of resources as needed to ensure effective incident operations.
The National Multi-Agency Coordination Group establishes the level throughout the year. Their decision is dictated by fuel and weather conditions, fire activity, and fire suppression resource availability throughout the country. The five preparedness levels range from the lowest (1) to the highest (5). For more information on preparedness levels visit our website here ➡ https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information
#FireYear2024
📸Photo from the #PioneerFire2024 by Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources.
We want to extend a big congratulations to BIA Forestry & Wildland Fire Management Eastern OK Region as they were selected as the winner of the 2024 Pulaski Award!
We commend them for the proactive measures that have been ... integrated into fire management practices and resource conservation priorities. We recognize the team’s contributions in creating a stable environment of fire engagement as well as the needs of the community and landscape health. The BIA Eastern Oklahoma Region is a model of integrated efforts within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Your innovative efforts serve as a tremendous model for the entire fire community.
The Pulaski Award is an annual, national award for outstanding contributions to wildland firefighting from America's wildland firefighters. The award is presented on the recommendation of the fire directors located here at the National Interagency Fire Center.
BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management
📸Photos by Morgan Thompson, BIA.
#NationalFireNews: July 17, 2024. Currently, 59 large active wildfires are currently being managed nationwide, and have burned 966,923 acres. Fire managers are using full suppression strategies on 50 of these wildfires.
Nearly ... 20,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel, 24 complex incident management teams, and 5 type 1 incident management teams are assigned to incidents across the nation.
Evacuation orders are in effect for residents near the #LoneRockFire, #LarchCreekFire, #FallsFire, #PioneerFire2024, #LarchCreekFire, #CougarCreekFire, #LakeFire, #TexasFire, #GraffPointFire, #2024BenchLakeFire, #MillerCreekFire, #HillFire, and #ShellyFire. If you live in an area that has been evacuated, please follow the instructions from local authorities. They will provide the latest recommendations based on the threat to your community and appropriate safety measures.
This #FireYear2024, 24,953 wildfires have burned 3,085,742 acres in the United States. More than 23,160 of these wildfires were started by people, compared to about 1,500 that were ignited by lightning. States with the most human-caused wildfires include California, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Missouri. With temperatures hitting record highs in many areas, it's imperative we all do our part to recreate responsibly and prevent wildfires.
More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn
📸 Photo 1, from InciWeb on the Cow Valley Fire in OR. Photo 2 and 3 on the Bench Lake Fire in ID. Photo 4 of the Hill Fire in CA, by the USFS.
📢📢📢#Hiring! The Bureau of Land Management Fire is accepting applications for a GS-05/06/07 Human Resources Assistant. Don't miss your chance to be a part of this great team ➡ www.usajobs.gov/job/800071700
Welcome to the Nation's Logistical 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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