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National Interagency Fire Center

U.S. federal government agency (non-editorial, wildfire operations)

Owned byNot a privately owned outlet. NIFC is a federal interagency coordination center in Boise, Idaho. Its partners are the USDA Forest Service, Interior Department agencies (Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), the National Weather Service, and the National Association of State Foresters. FEMA is also represented.
FundingU.S. taxpayer funds. Each member agency pays for its own NIFC operations through federal appropriations. It takes no advertising or subscription revenue and has no private owner.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

The Boise Interagency Fire Center was created in 1965 when the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and National Weather Service chose to work together. The goal was to reduce duplicated services, cut costs, and coordinate national fire planning and operations. The National Park Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs joined in the mid-1970s, and the Fish and Wildlife Service joined in 1979. In 1993 it was renamed the National Interagency Fire Center to reflect its national mission. Today it hosts the National Interagency Coordination Center, which dispatches resources nationwide, and it publishes national fire situation reports, outlooks and statistics that news outlets often cite. In January 2026, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued Order 3448 creating a consolidated U.S. Wildland Fire Service from Interior's separate fire programs, implementing a 2025 Trump executive order. The Forest Service is not part of that service. Congress's fiscal 2026 Interior appropriations act did not endorse full consolidation of federal wildland firefighting, and it directed a study of whether to include the Forest Service. Its content is generally data-driven and non-partisan in tone. Because it is government-run, its statements follow agency policy, so critics of the consolidation or of staffing and budget levels would look to outside sources for dissenting views.

Sources

  1. NIFC History
  2. National Interagency Fire Center (Wikipedia)
  3. About Us - NIFC
  4. Interior launches consolidated U.S. Wildland Fire Service (Capital Press)
  5. Interior Dept blazes ahead on unified wildland firefighting agency, without Congress endorsing plans (Federal News Network)

Profile compiled 2026-10-23; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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