Wildland Fire News

A selection of news releases and stories related to wildland fire management. For details about ongoing wildfires, visit the National Interagency Fire Center.

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National Park Service fire and aviation management personnel monitor a prescribed fire in Florida from the air.

Teaming Up to Take On the Double Threat of Invasives and Wildfires

03/01/2022

Invasive species and wildfire pose a dual threat to the nation’s communities, natural landscapes, and cultural resources. As we recognize National Invasive Species Awareness Week, we are also looking forward to how new, historic funding will support a strategic approach to combating these threats across government agencies.

Amid Historic Investment in Wildland Fire Management, Partnerships are Key

02/23/2022

Wildland fire management within the U.S. is built on interagency cooperation and extensive partnerships at the federal, state, Tribal, and local level. With the historic investment provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, robust partnerships will enable a cohesive approach to wildfire management across boundaries. 

Director’s Report: Shaping Wildland Fire Management for the Future

02/22/2022

As our nation has experienced increasingly severe wildfire activity in recent years, significant new funding for wildfire management demonstrates the importance the country has placed on addressing this crisis together. This funding will help us shape a wildland fire management program geared toward the challenges that lie ahead.

A prescribed fire burns near a community in Florida.

Interior Announces Plan to Implement Historic Wildland Fire Management Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

02/16/2022

The Department of the Interior’s Office of Wildland Fire today announced initial plans for investing nearly $1.5 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to increase the resilience of communities and lands facing the threat of wildland fires and to better support federal wildland firefighters. 

Silhouetted firefighters. Photo by USDA.

Advancing Wildland Firefighter Workforce Reforms (content.govdelivery.com)

02/16/2022

Over the next five years, the Interior Department will receive nearly $1.5 billion for wildland fire management, including $164 million for workforce improvements, ranging from a new wildland firefighter classification series to mental health support, improved compensation to additional training.

Firefighters receive a briefing amid the smoke from the 2020 Holiday Fire in Oregon. Photo by Megan McGinnis, BLM.

In the News: ‘A Deranged Pyroscape’: How Fires Across the World have Grown Weirder (www.theguardian.com)

02/08/2022

Despite the rise of headline-grabbing megafires, fewer fires are burning worldwide now than at any time since antiquity. But this isn’t good news – in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable.

Firefighters watch a retardant drop on the Peavine Fire in Nevada at sunrise. Photo by Sarah McNeil, BLM.

Meet BIL: How the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Supports Wildland Fire Management

01/24/2022

The once-in-a-generation investment in wildland fire management provided through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will significantly expand Interior’s forest and rangeland restoration, hazardous fuel management, wildfire preparedness, and post-fire recovery efforts.

Aerial view of burned homes in the aftermath of the Almeda Fire in Oregon. Photo by Ahturner through Adobe Stock.

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