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National Interagency Fire Center
U.S. federal government information source
The National Interagency Fire Center is a U.S. federal interagency facility in Boise, Idaho, where multiple federal land management and emergency agencies coordinate wildland firefighting logistics and publish official fire data. It is not a media outlet but a government operational and information hub whose published statistics and situation reports are widely cited as authoritative. Its factual data output does not editorialize, though the Trump administration's deep staffing cuts to participating agencies have reduced the workforce it relies on.
Owned byNot owned by a single entity; NIFC is a shared federal facility operated cooperatively by multiple U.S. agencies including the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), National Weather Service (NWS), U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF). In 2026, the Department of the Interior consolidated several of its fire programs into a new U.S. Wildland Fire Service (USWFS), which also operates at NIFC.
LeaningU.S. federal government information source
On the administrationmostly neutral
1average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun