No matter what strategies and tactics managers use, the primary objective of any suppression operation is to protect life, property, as well as any valued natural and cultural resources. Fire managers must react quickly to changing conditions and may use different strategies and tactics to control different areas of the same fire. is there a lot of fuel to burn? how dry is it?). Wildfire growth is based on weather, topography, and fuel (i.e. They remove fuel by cutting and digging to remove burnable vegetation with hand tools, by using heavy equipment like bulldozers to clear large areas of brush and trees, and by deliberately setting fires to rob an approaching wildfire of fuel (fighting fire with fire). They remove heat by applying water or fire retardant on the ground (using pumps or special wildland fire engines) or by air (using helicopters/airplanes). Firefighters control a fire's spread (or put it out) by removing one of the three ingredients fire needs to burn: heat, oxygen, or fuel.
Suppression operations include the things we do to extinguish a wildfire, prevent or modify the movement of unwanted fire, or manage a fire when it provides benefits like fuel reduction or improved wildlife habitat. Reporting personnel in this way enables a common view of the workforce across government agencies.ĥ8,985: Number of wildfires in the United States in 2021ħ.1 million: Number of acres burned in the United States in 2021Ħ9: average number of acres per fire in 1989ġ21: average number of acres per fire in 2021ĭatasource: National Interagency Coordination Center * FTE (full-time equivalent) is the annual number of "work years" produced by employees.
$383.7 million: money spent by this program in Fiscal Year 2021ĥ15: number of FTE* funded by this program in Fiscal Year 2021 Scenes of suppression: a single-engine tanker drops water on a wildfire in central Washington while engine crews work to contain the fire on the ground.
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