Fire Ignition Resources LLC

Fire Ignition Resources LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Talladega, Alabama, manufactures and supplies specialized aerial ignition spheres and dispensers to federal forest management and wildfire prevention agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards). The company designs its entire offering around the Premo Fireball sphere—a 1.25-inch polystyrene ball containing potassium permanganate—and the Premo Mark III Plastic Sphere Dispenser (PSD) machine, both purpose-built for aerial ignition in prescribed burns and wildfire suppression across federal lands. Fire Ignition Resources competes full-and-open; recent awards carry no set-aside designations, though the source notes total small business set-aside solicitations at procurement origin.

Customer concentration is extreme and vertical within wildland fire management. The top five customer agencies account for 84% of award volume, led overwhelmingly by the Department of Agriculture Forest Service, which anchors the portfolio across multiple regional commands. The Forest Service R8–Southern Region alone holds 58 awards valued at $2.6 million combined potential value; the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) holds 9 awards worth $10.7 million, making it the dominant dollar driver despite lower award count. This divergence reflects Fire Ignition Resources' seat on a $7.5 million single-award IDIQ with NIFC (awarded May 5, 2026, running through December 31, 2030), which generates high-value delivery orders. A second vehicle, a $250,000 single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 (awarded June 27, 2023, through June 29, 2028), anchors a secondary customer. Outside these two prime IDVs and the BPAs issued under them, Fire Ignition Resources operates as a spot-purchase vendor, responding to regional Forest Service purchase orders.

Recent representative work includes a $208,401 delivery order from NIFC for 507 cases of Premo Fireballs (June 2026), a $480,623 BPA call from Forest Service Region 3–Southwestern for Premo spheres and dispenser accessories (May 2024), a $145,103 total small business set-aside purchase order from Forest Service Region 8 for aerial ignition devices supporting Kisatchie National Forest (March 2026), and a $98,985 order from NIFC for five new Premo Mark III dispensers and refurbishment of one existing unit (September 2026, placing Fire Ignition Resources at delivery to Helen Guard Helibase and two additional federal forest locations through January 2027). The vendor also supplies Delayed Aerial Ignition Device (DAID) spheres to Department of Defense—a $114,460 firm fixed-price order to the Army Installation Management Command Southeast Region (May 2024) and a $93,110 order to DoD Southeast Region (February 2023)—extending beyond Forest Service into broader federal wildfire response.

Activity is volatile and decelerating. Award volume ran 19 annually in 2022, declined to 13 in 2023, recovered to 14 in 2024, then fell to 6 in 2025 and recovered to 10 in 2026 through late September. Combined potential value across 104 prime awards totals $15.3 million, with $5.6 million obligated (36% realization rate). Only three awards ($328 thousand combined value) complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure; most orders run short-cycle (completion within 90 days to six months), and the NIFC IDIQ dominates future exposure through 2030. Fire Ignition Resources operates with no subcontract footprint—all 104 awards are prime contracts. The vendor's NAICS profile clusters around Support Activities for Forestry (57 awards), Small Arms and Ordnance Manufacturing (25 awards), and miscellaneous chemical and machinery support work. PSC coding reflects Fire Fighting Equipment (29 awards), Aircraft Bombing Fire Control Components (13 awards), Miscellaneous Fire Control Equipment (13 awards), and Pyrotechnics (11 awards).