Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention And Response

It seeks faster, more coordinated firefighting and stronger prevention by reducing federal barriers, improving land management, and expanding access to data and equipment.

What the order does ​

• Consolidates the Interior and Agriculture Departments’ wildland fire programs where practicable within 90 days.
• Expands federal, state, local, tribal, and community partnerships for land management and wildfire response.
• Orders a 180-day technology roadmap covering artificial intelligence, data sharing, mapping, ignition detection, weather forecasting, evacuation, and modeling.
• Directs reviews of rules limiting prescribed burns, fire retardant, forest-fuel reduction, and other wildfire prevention and response measures.
• Considers power-system practices to reduce wildfire ignitions without raising electricity costs for end users.
• Reviews federal litigation positions involving utilities to align them with wildfire prevention and mitigation goals.
• Directs the Defense Department to identify releasable historical satellite data and evaluate sales of excess aircraft and parts for firefighting.
• Requires agencies to identify regulatory barriers and develop wildfire-response metrics covering response times, fuel treatments, safety, and costs.

Who it affects ​

• Federal, state, local, and tribal wildfire and land-management agencies.
• Firefighters, emergency responders, and communities in wildfire-prone areas.
• Electric utilities, forest-products businesses, and organizations conducting prescribed burns or fuel-reduction work.