Burnham, Luke

Burnham, Luke, doing business as Burnham Wildfire, is a sole proprietorship based in Superior, Montana, that provides Type 2 water tender equipment and water handling services for wildland fire suppression and all-hazard response to the U.S. Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor. Burnham Wildfire operates exclusively under total small business set-asides on its indefinite delivery contracts and competes full-and-open on individual task orders issued by the Forest Service.

Burnham Wildfire's work centers on delivering water tenders, water handling equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel capable of supporting up to 16-hour daily firefighting shifts. Representative delivery orders include a $25,350 firm fixed-price order from Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) in July 2026 for water handling services in Wenatchee, Washington; a $20,800 order from Region 6 in August 2024; a $16,900 order from Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) in July 2024; and a $13,650 order from Region 1 in August 2023. The vendor holds three active indefinite delivery contracts: a $500,000 small-business-set-aside IDIQ awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in February 2026 for water handling across East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (completion date May 2030); a $250,000 small-business-set-aside IDC awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center in May 2025 for Regions 1, 2, 4, 8, and 9; and a $250,000 small-business-set-aside IDC from May 2022 (expired May 2025) covering the same regional footprint. All work is issued through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service accounts for 93% of awards (28 of 30) with combined potential value of $898 thousand. Within that agency, Forest Service Region 1 (Northern Region) holds 21 awards ($852 thousand combined potential value), while the National Interagency Fire Center holds 5 awards ($1 million combined potential value) — the two rankings diverge because the Interagency Fire Center awards carry higher ceilings on the underlying IDIQs despite fewer task orders. Forest Service Region 6 holds 2 orders ($46 thousand). Burnham Wildfire places task orders primarily under two Blanket Purchase Agreements (7 task orders totaling $236 thousand under AG0343B167045, and 2 task orders totaling $62 thousand under AG0343B137018) and three additional IDIQs. All 30 awards are categorized under NAICS 541990 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression.

Activity has been episodic: two awards in 2022, one in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026. Combined obligated dollars stand at $384 thousand against a combined potential value of $1.9 million, indicating a 20% obligation rate characteristic of on-call vehicle structure where the Forest Service draws task orders as wildfire seasons demand. The vendor has maintained registration in SAM.gov since 2007 and has served as a prime on every award in the source data without subcontract relationships.