Western Wildfire LLC

Western Wildfire LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Lewisville, Idaho, operates as a prime contractor delivering wildfire prevention, suppression, and incident response services to the USDA Forest Service under total small business set-aside indefinite delivery contracts and numerous firm fixed-price task orders. The company competes entirely under set-asides—all six of its active parent IDCs carry total small business set-aside designation—and executes a high-velocity, task-order-driven business model across Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center.

Western Wildfire's capability portfolio centers on operationally deployed wildfire and all-hazard incident resources. The company provides emergency medical responders, mobile communications units (including Type 1 and Type 2 units), helicopter operations support, fuel tenders (Type 3 vehicles), satellite communications services, and field-deployed personnel for wildland fire suppression, prevention, and incident management. Representative delivery orders illustrate scope: a $144.4 million Region 5 order (August 2023) for comprehensive wildfire services; an $81 thousand Region 2 delivery order (July 2026) for fire suppression in Colorado; a $124.2 thousand Region 6 order (September 2025) for wildfire-related services in Oregon; and a $52.7 thousand mobile communications unit purchase order (June 2025) from the Idaho Region. The company also subcontracts satellite communications and helicopter support as standalone offerings.

Customer concentration is extreme. The National Interagency Fire Center (the central dispatch hub for the Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management office) issued 64 awards totaling $4.2 million in combined potential value (44% of the portfolio), while Region 4 (Intermountain) issued 56 awards for $2.2 million (23%). Region 6 (Pacific Northwest), Region 3 (Southwestern), and Region 5 (Pacific Southwest) together account for another 20% of dollars. These five customer segments represent 88% of combined potential value across the portfolio. The vendor has worked with 10 distinct federal agencies, but the Forest Service monopolizes the footprint; no other agency appears in the top five.

Western Wildfire holds six active parent IDCs, all structured as five-year, $250,000-to-$500,000 total small business set-asides awarded by the National Interagency Fire Center between May 2023 and February 2026. The vehicles cover helicopter operations support (awarded February 2026, $500 thousand), mobile communications units (February 2026, $500 thousand), emergency medical responders (February 2026, $500 thousand and May 2024, $250 thousand), fuel tenders (May 2024, $250 thousand; also a legacy May 2023 vehicle), and a fuel-tenders-for-regions-1-2-4 BPA (April 2023, $250 thousand, expiring April 2025). Task-order velocity against these vehicles is high: 63 orders under the helicopter support vehicle, 36 under mobile communications, and 33 under another broad-service vehicle. Individual delivery orders range from under $1.6 thousand to over $144 thousand, with performance periods spanning days to weeks during peak fire seasons.

Activity has grown sharply. The vendor executed 27 awards in 2022, declined to 17 in 2023, then accelerated to 45 in 2024 and 34 in 2025, with 35 awards recorded in 2026 (year-to-date through September). Recent obligated value stands at $6.3 million against $9.6 million in combined potential value (66% obligation rate), indicating active invoicing on a maturing contract portfolio. The company operates primarily under NAICS 488190 (other support activities for air transportation, 109 awards) and 517919 (all other telecommunications, 38 awards), with secondary presence under ambulance services (12 awards) and forestry support (10 awards). PSC coding reflects the operational focus: 188 awards fall under natural resources conservation forest-range fire suppression/presuppression; nine under satellite communications; eight under fire fighting equipment.

Western Wildfire does not subcontract; all 206 awards are prime awards with no sub-award footprint. The vendor operates exclusively within the Forest Service ecosystem, with no diversification into other agencies or programs, no teaming relationships with larger primes, and no parent company or subsidiary network evident in the award record. The federal footprint is tight, geographically distributed across six Forest Service regions and the National Interagency Fire Center, and structurally dependent on renewal of the four core IDCs, the earliest of which (fuel tenders for regions 1–2–4) expires April 2025.