National Wildland Fire, LLC

National Wildland Fire, LLC operates as a prime contractor providing wildland fire suppression and management services—firefighting engines, water handling equipment, trained operational personnel, and incident management support—to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service across multiple regions and to the National Interagency Fire Center, competing entirely under full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders despite holding total small business set-aside IDIQ vehicles as the underlying master contracts.

The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation based in Durango, Colorado, with headquarters also referenced at an Aztec, New Mexico address. National Wildland Fire has been registered in SAM.gov since 2004 and is classified as a small business. It operates exclusively through delivery orders against four primary Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) Incident Blanket Purchase Agreement (I-BPA) IDIQ vehicles, each valued at $250,000 with performance periods extending through 2025–2030. These IDIQs cover water handling services across Forest Service regions: one for Region 5 (Pacific Southwest), one for East Zone (Regions 1, 2, 4, and 9), one for Regions 3 and 8, and one for West Zone (Regions 3, 5, 6, and 10). All four IDIQs are designated total small business set-asides, yet the delivery orders placed under them typically carry no set-aside restriction, enabling full-and-open competition at the task order level.

National Wildland Fire's customer base concentrates overwhelmingly on the Forest Service. The top five Forest Service entities account for 86% of recent awards by count. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region leads by volume with 70 awards worth $2.7 million combined potential value. The Fire and Aviation Management National Interagency Fire Center placed 51 awards valued at $2.8 million. The R5-Pacific Southwest Region issued 47 awards worth $3 million, the largest single dollar pool. R3-Southwestern Region and the Forest Service's general organization round out the top five. The vendor has worked with 13 distinct customer agencies, but concentration on the Forest Service is extreme—the five top Forest Service entities account for 83% of combined potential value. A small number of delivery orders have gone to other agencies including the Department of Interior.

The vendor's recent award activity shows declining volume: 40 awards in 2022, 30 in 2023, 39 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and only 7 awards recorded year-to-date in 2026 (as of mid-July). Over 258 total awards in the source data, the combined potential value stands at $13.1 million with $11.1 million obligated (85% execution rate), indicating steady invoicing on a seasonal contracting cadence tied to fire season. Representative delivery orders include a $296 thousand award from R5 in August 2025 for wildland fire services in Eureka, California; a $215.6 thousand order from the Intermountain Region in July 2025 for services in Venice, Utah; a $212.5 thousand R5 award in August 2024; and numerous smaller orders in the $20,000–$80,000 range across multiple regions. The NAICS footprint is dominated by Support Activities for Forestry (253 awards), with a handful of truck rental and emergency services classifications.

National Wildland Fire's five primary parent vehicles are all Forest Service VIPR I-BPA IDIQs: IDC 1202SB22T7445 (East Zone) with 49 task orders totaling $2.4 million; IDC 1202SB22T8001 (West Zone) with 47 task orders worth $2.6 million; BPA AG82X9B167015 with 42 task orders valued at $1.4 million; IDC 1282X919T7035 with 32 task orders at $1.3 million; and IDC 12837119T7050 with 27 task orders at $951 thousand. These vehicles enable the Forest Service to rapidly procure specialized wildland fire resources on an as-needed basis during peak fire seasons across regional footprints covering the western United States, with optional usage rights extended to the Department of Interior, National Park Service, and Bureau of Indian Affairs. National Wildland Fire maintains no subcontractor relationships; all work is prime performance by the company itself, leveraging its own fleet of Type 4 and Type 6 firefighting engines, water handling equipment, and personnel resources. The firm operates across geographically dispersed regions—places of performance span California, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Oregon, and other western states—but administrative and operational headquarters remain anchored in the Durango area.