Hert's Wildfire LLC

Hert's Wildfire LLC, a small business based in Billings, Montana, provides water handling services for wildfire suppression, all-hazard incidents, and prescribed project work to the U.S. Forest Service and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor under Total Small Business set-asides. The vendor operates exclusively in the fire and natural resources suppression space, with all eight recent awards concentrated in that mission.

Hert's Wildfire holds two IDCs from the National Interagency Fire Center under the U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management program: a $500,000 multiple-award contract awarded February 6, 2026, covering water handling equipment, materials, supplies, transportation, and trained personnel for East Zone Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9 (performance through May 30, 2030); and a $250,000 contract awarded May 30, 2025, establishing Incident Blanket Purchase Agreements through the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system for the same regions and scope. Both contracts are priced on a firm fixed price basis and support emergency response operations including up to 16-hour daily shifts. The vendor draws task orders under these IDCs from the Forest Service's regional offices — three delivery orders totaling $95,000 from Region 1 (Northern Region) and two totaling $57,000 from Region 9 (Eastern Region), all awarded in late July and August 2026 with short completion windows (August 3 to September 4, 2026). The source identifies one additional delivery order of $38,000 awarded August 4, 2026, to support work in Helena, Montana, also under the NIFC-managed vehicle structure. Outside the IDC structure, Hert's Wildfire received a $28,000 purchase order for a Type 6 engine from the Department of Interior's Idaho Region in June 2025. The Department of Veterans Affairs placed one $41,800 delivery order in July 2026 (Region 9 - Eastern Region), although the underlying contract vehicle is not specified in the source.

Customer concentration is tightly distributed across Forest Service fire operations and Interior land management: the National Interagency Fire Center accounts for $750,000 (81%) of combined potential value across two IDC awards, while Forest Service regional offices account for $152,000 (16%), and Interior's Idaho Region represents $28,000 (3%). Activity remains nascent — two awards in 2025 and six in 2026 — with only $180,000 obligated against $930,000 in combined potential value as of the most recent data snapshot, indicating early utilization of the NIFC vehicle. Hert's Wildfire operates entirely under NAICS 332311 (Support Activities for Forestry) and PSC H21 (Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression).