Volcano Creek Enterprises Inc.

Volcano Creek Enterprises Inc., a minority-owned, Native American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Foresthill, California, delivers wildland fire management equipment and trained personnel to the U.S. Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center as a prime contractor, competing under total small business set-asides on multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the Virtual Incident Procurement system.

The company specializes in comprehensive wildland fire suppression and emergency response services across western Forest Service regions, providing engines, water tenders, excavators, dozers, faller modules, and trained operators for fire prevention, preparedness, suppression, and recovery efforts. Volcano Creek operates as a Subchapter S corporation with self-certified small disadvantaged business status; the source lists it as minority-owned and Native American-owned. The company's work is overwhelmingly concentrated in Support Activities for Forestry (NAICS 112910) — 172 of 179 awards — with the top PSC code Natural Resources/Conservation- Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression accounting for 164 awards.

Customer concentration is pronounced: the Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5) accounts for 85 awards and $5.4 million of the combined $14 million potential value, while the National Interagency Fire Center delivers an additional 22 awards worth $4.4 million combined. Five agencies cover 93% of potential value; 84% of awards flow to the top five customers, all within the Forest Service. Recent obligated dollars total $6.5 million (47% of potential value across the portfolio), reflecting significant execution against awarded ceilings.

Volcano Creek holds a portfolio of multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts through the Virtual Incident Procurement system, all set-aside for total small business and all firm fixed-price. Recent IDV awards from the National Interagency Fire Center (February and May 2026) include contracts for water handling, heavy equipment with water, miscellaneous heavy equipment, and faller services across Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9, each carrying $250 thousand ceilings through 2028–2030. Delivery orders under these vehicles range from $5,200 to $645,025; the top three vehicles by task order count are indefinite delivery contract 1202SB22T8159 (19 task orders, $1.1 million combined potential value), BPA AG9J61B167377 (15 task orders, $466 thousand), and IDC 1202SB21T8159 (14 task orders, $721 thousand). Volcano Creek competes exclusively under the total small business set-aside posture; no full-and-open awards appear in the record.

Activity shows a decline from 2023 levels: 23 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, then 6 in 2024, 7 in 2025, and 7 in 2026 to date. This trajectory suggests either portfolio transition, recompete timing, or consolidation of work under larger parent vehicles rather than discrete delivery orders. Place of performance spans multiple western locations — Grass Valley, Nevada City, Foresthill, and Quincy, California predominate in the source data, with subsidiary work in Redding, Yreka, and other California sites, plus occasional work in Regions 4 and 6 across Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah. The company has maintained active federal contracts since at least 2001, registering in SAM in August 2004, and has received consistent task orders from Forest Service Region 5 since 2022.

Mastication, Logging, Fuel load management, grapple piling, tillage, water haul, excavating, land clearing and fire fighting