Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc.

Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc., operating as Deer Creek GIS, delivers specialized wildland fire suppression, prescribed fire planning, hazardous fuels reduction, and ecosystem restoration services to federal land management agencies, primarily the USDA Forest Service, as a prime contractor (100% of awards) with no subcontract activity. Headquartered in Chico, California, the company is a total small business that competes under Total Small Business set-asides on the majority of its delivery orders, though larger task orders against parent IDIQs carry no set-aside designation.

Firestorm's concrete capability portfolio centers on Type 2 and Type 2-IA wildland firefighting crew deployment, initial attack response, fire containment operations, and specialized equipment provision including water tenders, engines, and chippers across western regions. Representative work includes a $998,412.50 delivery order from USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region for Type 2IA crews to support prescribed fire implementation and fuels reduction through August 2027; a $653,918 full-and-open delivery order for Quincy, California-based suppression support through October 2025; a $325 thousand delivery order for Susanville fire suppression; and a $743,461.44 delivery order against the National Type 2 IA Firefighter Crews IDIQ for prescribed fire operations on the North Yuba through August 2027. The company also holds a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region for stewardship services across 14 California national forests running through October 2032, plus multiple $500,000 IDIQs for water handling and chipper services in Regions 5 and 6 through 2029–2030.

Customer concentration is extreme and region-specific. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region accounts for 529 awards ($120.7 million combined potential value) and dominates Firestorm's recent activity; the National Interagency Fire Center contributes 106 awards ($238.7 million), anchored by the large prescribed fire IDIQ; and the Department of Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region places 5 awards ($20.4 million). Together, these three customers drive 86% of the vendor's combined potential value. Activity has declined moderately year over year from 152 awards in 2022 to 107 in 2026, though the portfolio spans 1,241 total awards across 26 agencies, with recent annual volume ranging 110–152 orders. Recompete exposure in the next 24 months is minimal: only 4 awards totaling $2.9 million reach ultimate completion within that window.

Firestorm's parent vehicles are almost exclusively USDA Forest Service IDIQs and BPAs. The Indefinite Delivery Contract 1202SC22T2304 hosts 412 task orders worth $66.5 million combined potential value; BPA AG9J61B167232 carries 123 task orders ($5.1 million); IDC 1202SB22T7789 contains 119 task orders ($8.8 million); and the newer $7.5 million prescribed fire IDIQ for Region 4 (Intermountain) awarded September 8, 2025, under total small business set-aside status, runs through September 2028. Nearly all task orders are firm fixed price and complete within weeks to months, supporting seasonal fire operations.

Service Contract Inventory records show SCI-reportable invoicing of $3.5 million across FY2023–FY2025, with $2.8 million in FY2023 (25.3 FTEs) and $723,000 in FY2024 (5.1 FTEs), dropping to zero reported in FY2025. Median government-paid hourly rates on SCI contracts run $59.11/hr, with rates spanning from $50.79/hr (10th percentile) to $68.38/hr (90th percentile), consistent with field-labor-intensive wildfire suppression work. The SCI dataset is a strict subset—primarily small service contracts above $150,000—and does not capture Firestorm's massive delivery-order volume against standing IDIQs, which constitutes the bulk of the company's federal revenue. Across all SCI records, the vendor operated with 0% average sub-hours share, confirming Firestorm's in-house delivery model.

NAICS coding and PSC alignment reinforce specialization: 1,174 of 1,241 awards fall under NAICS 115310 (Support Activities for Forestry), and 1,116 awards carry PSC Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. Corporate structure records identify Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc. as a single named entity; no separately operated subsidiaries appear, though the trade name "Deer Creek GIS" reflects the company's prior or affiliate identity in geospatial and forestry consulting.

Wildland Fire Suppression crews and engines, wildland firefighter training (NWCG Courses), mastication, ROW clearing, prescribed burning, fire break construction, hazardous fuels reduction consulting and implementation