U.S. Wildland Fire Service

Modern wildland fire management for more resilient landscapes and safer communities.

The U.S. Wildland Fire Service streamlines wildfire prevention, response, and recovery efforts across public lands administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, setting the nation on a course to build a more resilient future.

This unified service reflects the critical role Interior’s wildland fire management plays in safeguarding lives, communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems amid the increasing risk wildfires pose across the country. Learn more about us.

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    The vision, the mission statement, the core values all came out of a group of people from across the US Wildland fire service.


    Happy to have people from the ground level to the highest level get together and come up with these common standards.


    Took a historic moment to bring folks together into the same room at all levels of the organization.


    Everything from AGS 4 Apprentice all the way up to the Fire Chief, representing all the different functional areas and aspects of fire.


    Four agencies and tribes coming together to build a vision statement and a value statement.


    I mean, the commitment to excellence that the mission statement drives us towards is going to make us successful and make our organization be successful and support others.


    The core values, the vision and the mission are foundational to the identity of who we are and where we're going.


    Anchor to excellence, elevate the standard.


    Anchor to excellence, elevate the standard.


    We are the US Wildland Fire Service Anchored Excellence.


    Elevate the standard.

    We are the U.S. Wildland Fire Service Anchored in Excellence.

    The vision, the mission statement, the core values all came out of a group of people from across the US Wildland fire service.
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