Wildfire Response and Preparedness Act of 2025

This bill tells the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior to set clear rules for how fast the federal government must respond to wildfires on federal land. Within 90 days of becoming law, they must create a response-time standard. The goal is to evaluate a new wildfire within 30 minutes and to have firefighting resources moving within 3 hours.

Within one year, they must send Congress a report that names a single point of contact for federal wildfire response, gives a unified budget request, and lists key performance measures for the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, National Park Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service. The report must also describe the current and needed firefighting fleet to meet the 30-minute/3-hour targets, changes to speed up dispatch, ways to streamline contracts to under a year, and what’s needed to keep contracted firefighting resources available year-round nationwide.

• Who is affected: Federal wildfire agencies and wildfires on federal land (Forest Service, BLM, BIA, NPS, FWS).
• What changes: Set a response-time standard; aim for 30-minute evaluation and 3-hour deployment; plan for faster dispatch, a unified budget, better tracking, and year-round resources.
• When: Standard due in 90 days; report due in 1 year.