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Current National Statistics

1 Total

New Large Fires

11 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

128,066 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 07:20

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

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#NationalFireNews: April 4, 2025. As of 7:30 a.m. (MDT) today, the National Preparedness Level (PL) will decrease to PL 1. This is the lowest level, and it means we’re in a much better place right now when it comes to wildfires. ... Over the past few days, weather conditions and dry vegetation have started to ease up in places that recently had a lot of wildfire activity. Wildland fire experts believe this cooler, quieter trend will continue. Because of this, more firefighting resources are now available across the country, and there haven’t been as many requests for help through the National Interagency Coordination Center. The 2025 core component module package for RT-130, Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR), is here and ready to go! This year’s training package includes a powerful story from the field: the Duvall Creek incident within an incident. ➡ https://www.nwcg.gov/training-courses/rt-130/case-studies/cs231 ICYMI: The National Significant Wildland Fire Outlook for the next four months was released on April 1 ➡ https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf 🔥More NFN: www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Big Ridge Fire in Georgia, Puerto Rico Crew.

Great strides have been made in the modernization of BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management fleet! They joined forces with Bureau of Land Management Fire's National Fire Equipment Program, based out of NIFC, to support the ... effort to standardize and modernize all wildland fire fleet including command vehicles, utility vehicles, hotshot crew carriers, water tenders and more. Read the full story ➡ www.bia.gov/news/bia-makes-strides-modernize-fire-fleet-across-indian-country

Ready to start your career in fire? Multiple agencies represented at NIFC are hiring for positions throughout the country! You can find all current openings on USAJOBS.gov, but we encourage you to follow agency specific pages so ... you don't miss an opportunity! 🔥U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fire 🔥Bureau of Land Management Fire 🔥BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management 🔥National Park Service Fire and Aviation Management 🔥Forest Service information: https://www.fs.usda.gov/working-with-us/careers/fire #CareerInFire #FireJob 📸Photo 1: Diamond Mountain Interagency Hotshots, photo by Meghann Gunther, BLM. Photo 2 by Paul Hensel, USFWS. Photo 3 by B.Billie, BIA.

Our Great Basin Smokejumpers are getting dialed in for Fire Year 2025! Over the last few weeks and continuing into April, the smokejumpers will complete practice jumps in multiple terrains to ensure readiness for the season ahead. ... In Fire Year 2024, the Great Basin Smokejumpers completed nearly 1,200 practice jumps and 346 fire jumps. Want to see what their view looks like? 👉 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nosvVZJcbA8&t=101s

🔥National Fire Year Theme #5: Be Smoke Ready. During wildland fires, air quality can change quickly. Know your risk to wildfire smoke and plan ahead to reduce exposure. For recommended actions, as well as smoke forecasts and ... current information, visit: www.airnow.gov/wildfires/ National Fire Year Themes 👉 www.nifc.gov/fire-information/national-fire-year-themes 📸Photo by Lauren Kokinda, BLM. South Moccasin Fire near Lewistown, Montana 2021.

No April Fools' Day joke here! Released today, the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for April through July 2025. Fire activity increased across the southern tier of the U.S. from New Mexico to the southeast ... Atlantic coast as well as the central Plains into the Mid-Atlantic, and the national preparedness level increased to two (on a scale of 1-5) March 4. The greatest increase in activity was observed in the Southern Area, now at geographic area preparedness level four, with a significant fire outbreak on the Plains March 14, and numerous fires in the southern Appalachians the latter half of the month. The Eastern Area also observed a steady increase in activity with the geographic area preparedness level increasing to two March 15. Total acres burned through March of this year is 121% of the 10-year average, with an above average tally of wildfires of 170% 🔥Read the full outlook here: https://www.nifc.gov/nicc-files/predictive/outlooks/monthly_seasonal_outlook.pdf #NationalFireNews

One of NIFC's own recently joined as a guest during the "Cup of Joe - Fighting Fires" conversation with the University of Idaho, highlighting the national role of wildland fire agencies based here along with our ties to Idaho. ... ☕https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVrxoTzwgR4

Several agencies represented at NIFC are hiring wildland firefighters across the country! Explore opportunities on USAJOBS.gov, including this one at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex. ➡Follow U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... Service Fire to stay updated on job openings and opportunities!

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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.