Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025
Committee hearing: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Committee hearing
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Jan 14, 2026
What it does
The Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025 would require the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to establish a standard for wildfire response time on federal lands within 90 days of enactment, aiming for a response time of no more than 30 minutes and deployment of suppression assets within 3 hours. It also mandates a joint report to Congress within one year detailing a single point of contact for federal wildfire response, a unified budget request, performance indicators for key agencies, fleet assessments, and recommendations to improve dispatch systems, contracting, and year-round asset availability. The bill affects federal wildland firefighting operations and the…
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