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Current National Statistics

5 Total

New Large Fires

5 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

144,141 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Friday, November 22, 2024 - 08:04

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

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Here's a Florida #FireJob for you! The BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management Seminole Agency is hiring a Fire Management Officer. 🔥Apply before December 3 - www.usajobs.gov/job/808257200

#NationalFireNews: November 22, 2024. Five new large wildfires have burned 144,141 acres. About 180 people are assigned to incidents, including 3 crews and 21 engines. This #FireYear2024, 51,320 wildfires have burned 8,142,689 ... acres. The number of wildfires is slightly below the 10-year average of 53,747, while the acres burned is well above the average of 6,590,182 acres. As we head into the winter and get ready for the holidays, we recognize the work our burned area emergency response (BAER) experts continue to do in several states. After a wildfire, the land may need to be stabilized to prevent loss of topsoil through erosion and prevent the movement of dirt into rivers and streams. Land management specialists and volunteers jump start the renewal of plant life through seeding and planting annuals, trees and native species that help retain soil and fight invasive weeds. It is a long-term process that comes alive as the fires die down. Learn more about what these scientists are doing in California, Idaho and Nevada ➡️ https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/accessible-view?combine=BAER&field_state_target_id= 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Photos from InciWeb.

Wildland fire management takes collaboration across state, federal, Tribal, and local levels! Shoutout to our friends at Idaho Department of Lands for their #FirePreventionFriday tips and #ThankAFirefighter mention.

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Here's your #FireJob opportunity with BIA Forestry and Wildland Fire Management! Multiple opportunities and locations are currently accepting applications. This is #NotYourOrdinaryJob and you don't want to miss the chance to ... apply.

Curious what post-fire recovery entails? Wildfires can cause complex problems, from severe loss of vegetation and soil erosion, to a decrease in water quality and possible flash flooding. Post-fire recovery is facilitated through ... a program called Burned Area Emergency Response, or BAER. After this year's #ParkFire in California, a U.S. Forest Service BAER assessment team completed a post-fire assessment of the burned area and affected watersheds to determine their response, soil conditions, potential threats, and recommended BAER emergency stabilization measures and actions on National Forest System lands. BAER addresses post-fire emergency stabilization and other post-wildfire problems in order to protect public safety and prevent further degradation of the landscape and to mitigate post-fire damages to cultural resources. Not every wildland fire will require the services of a BAER team. In fact, most of them do not. The determination not to utilize BAER is not a reflection of the importance of a specific wildland fire, it simply means that the anticipated post-fire impacts to natural and cultural resources from that specific fire were not at an unacceptable level and the land can recover naturally. 🔥More on post-fire recovery ➡ https://www.nifc.gov/programs/post-fire-recovery 🔥More on the Park Fire report ➡ inciweb-prod-media-bucket.s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2024-09/Park%20Post-Fire%20BAER%20Assessment%20Report%20Summary_PUBLIC.pdf #LivingWithWildfire #BAER 📸Photos from InciWeb on the Park Fire, post-fire BAER.

We love to see the fantastic interagency support for the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree as it makes its way over east from Alaska! Coming from U.S. Forest Service - Tongass National Forest with a pit stop at Bureau of Land Management ... - Utah, the tree is well taken care of and again on the road! #ItTakesAllOfUs

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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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