Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc.

Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc., doing business as Deer Creek GIS, is a for-profit forestry and emergency services contractor based in Chico, California, that competes as a prime on multiple-award and single-award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts and delivery orders with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center, delivering wildland fire suppression, prescribed fire planning, hazardous fuels reduction, and ecosystem restoration services to federal land management agencies across western regions.

The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor across its federal footprint, with no recorded subcontract activity. Firestorm's federal work centers on wildland firefighting capabilities—Type 2 and Type 2-IA crew deployment, initial attack response, fire containment, prescribed burning operations, and specialized equipment provision (water tenders, chippers, engines)—delivered to the USDA Forest Service across Regions 1 through 8 and to the Department of Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region. Recent representative delivery orders include a $653,918 Pacific Southwest Region wildland fire suppression order (June 2025), a $557,611 Pacific Southwest Region delivery order for fire suppression and emergency response (October 2024), and multiple $250,000–$350,000 task orders across Intermountain, Rocky Mountain, and Northern regions for fire crews and specialized equipment. Firestorm also holds a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region for stewardship services across 14 national forests in California, valid through October 2032.

Customer concentration reflects a dominant focus on the USDA Forest Service ecosystem. The top-five funding agencies account for 86% of combined potential value: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center leads with 105 awards worth $237.9 million; the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) places 482 awards worth $112.2 million; the Department of the Interior National Park Service Intermountain Region holds 5 awards worth $20.4 million; the Department of Agriculture Forest Service holds 114 awards worth $15.8 million; and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station holds 2 awards worth $7.5 million. The gap between award count and dollar concentration—Region 5 leads by order volume but NIFC leads by dollars—signals that Firestorm's largest parent IDIQs are anchored at NIFC.

Firestorm's vehicle position centers on three large NIFC-issued multiple-award small-business-set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts worth $250 thousand each for water handling (Region 5, through June 2030), chipper services (Regions 5 and 6, through May 2029), and additional chipper services (Regions 5 and 6, through May 2030), plus a single-award $7.5 million prescribed fire and support IDIQ with the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station's Rocky Mountain Research Station (through September 2028) for work across 12 Intermountain Region national forests. Task-order activity against the vendor's top parent vehicles shows 343 orders under IDIQ 1202SC22T2304 ($54.2 million combined value), 123 orders under BPA AG9J61B167232 ($5.1 million), 119 orders under IDIQ 1202SB22T2789 ($8.8 million), 61 orders under IDIQ 129J6120T7024 ($3.2 million), and 57 orders under BPA AG9J61B137191 ($3.2 million). All visible set-asides are Total Small Business designations; Firestorm does not appear in 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB, or other socioeconomic categories.

Activity has been moderately stable across the past five years—152 awards in 2022, declining to 25 awards year-to-date through June 2026—reflecting Firestorm's reliance on large parent IDIQs that generate many small delivery orders rather than new prime awards. Only one award (worth $1.2 million combined potential value) reaches completion inside the next 24 months, signaling minimal immediate recompete pressure for the visible portfolio, though the underlying parent IDIQ vehicles themselves will face potential recompete or renewal decisions as their performance periods approach expiration (chiefly 2028–2030).

SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above the $150 thousand threshold shows $3.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 ($2.8 million in FY2023, $723 thousand in FY2024), reflecting a decline in captured reportable service-contract revenue. The vendor deployed roughly 25.3 FTEs on SCI-reportable contracts in FY2023 and 5.1 FTEs in FY2024. Government-paid hourly rates on these contracts clustered around a median of $59.11/hr, with a 10th percentile of $50.79/hr and a 90th percentile of $68.38/hr, indicating mid-level labor pricing for field-based wildland fire operations. Firestorm does not engage named subcontractors on its prime contracts; all delivery is performed in-house by company personnel. The SCI dataset covers only contracts above the reporting threshold and excludes goods, small purchases, and non-federal revenue, so these figures represent a partial view of Firestorm's total federal services footprint and a smaller fraction of total enterprise revenue.

Firestorm's capability portfolio is highly specialized and regionally concentrated. The vendor delivers wildland firefighting crews (chiefly Type 2 and Type 2-IA formations), prescribed fire modules, water and fuel tenders, chippers, and associated personnel and logistics to support the Forest Service's fire suppression, fuels reduction, and ecosystem restoration mission across the western United States. The company does not diversify into other federal service categories; award volume and dollar concentration both reflect a single-focus market—wildland fire and associated forestry emergency response. This narrow specialization has sustained a 1,159-award portfolio worth $459 million in combined potential value over three decades, but it also exposes Firestorm to fluctuations in federal fire-season demand and IDIQ recompete outcomes.

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