Rattlesnake Ridge Fire Suppression, Inc.

Rattlesnake Ridge Fire Suppression, Inc., doing business as Rattlesnake Ridge, is a Black American-owned, minority-owned small disadvantaged business based in Yakima, Washington, that provides wildland fire suppression services and equipment to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor exclusively under total small business set-asides and full-and-open delivery orders. The company is a Subchapter S Corporation that operates through multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts and firm fixed-price delivery orders across western Forest Service regions.

Rattlesnake Ridge delivers Type 2 and Type 4-6 fire engines, Type 1-3 support and tactical water tenders, hand crews, and specialized firefighting equipment including pumps and hoses for incident response, mop-up, post-fire remediation, and prescribed burn operations. Representative work includes a $22.5 million Type 2 Blanket Purchase Agreement for National Type 2 firefighter crews and wildland fire suppression services across Forest Service Regions 3, 4, 5, and 6 running through July 1, 2027; a $500,000 water handling IDIQ for Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) through June 4, 2030; a $500,000 water handling IDIQ for Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) through May 30, 2030; and a $339,652.60 delivery order from Forest Service Region 6 for wildland fire and all-hazard incident suppression with completion through May 10, 2026. More recent activity includes over forty delivery orders awarded in 2026 under total small business set-asides and full-and-open designations, with individual order values ranging from $2,675 to $288,900.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and its component regions account for substantially all federal awards. Forest Service Region 6 (Pacific Northwest Region) leads by order count at 73 awards ($6.1 million combined potential value), followed by the National Interagency Fire Center at 14 awards ($3.1 million) and Forest Service Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region) at 11 awards ($736 thousand). When aggregated to the USDA Forest Service parent level, the agency represents the overwhelming majority of Rattlesnake Ridge's portfolio. Forest Service regions in the Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, Southern, Intermountain, and Southwestern areas dominate, with occasional work in the Idaho Region.

Rattlesnake Ridge holds nine active parent vehicles: a $22.5 million Type 2 BPA for National Type 2 firefighter crews (July 1, 2027 expiration); five water-handling IDIQs ranging from $250,000 to $500,000 ceilings through the National Interagency Fire Center, covering Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 with expiration dates through May-June 2030; and two legacy water-handling contracts from 2022. The top vehicle by task order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract 1204H125T7429 with 30 task orders ($2.5 million combined potential value), followed by IDC 1202SB22T8059 with 28 task orders ($1.6 million).

Activity has grown significantly: seven awards in both 2022 and 2023, seventeen in 2024, twenty-five in 2025, and forty in 2026. Combined potential value across all 131 prime awards stands at $33.5 million, with $7.6 million obligated to date (23% draw-down rate). In the next twenty-four months, five awards totaling $950 thousand in combined potential value reach ultimate completion, creating modest recompete exposure. Category concentration is extreme: 128 of 131 awards fall under NAICS 238910 (Support Activities for Forestry), and 123 awards are coded to PSC 238 (Natural Resources/Conservation–Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression).

Rattlesnake Ridge operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The company carries no vehicle positions on GWACs or broader civilian IT/professional services contracts; its entire contracting posture is rooted in rapid-deployment wildland fire suppression under Forest Service regional offices and National Interagency Fire Center vehicles. Award trajectory reflects seasonal fire-response demand, with clustering of deliveries and short completion windows typical of incident response contracting.