Commissioner Franz has lifted the statewide burn ban for DNR-protected lands, however, local burn restrictions may still be in place. Please call your local fire authority before lighting any fire.
We are Washington state's largest on-call fire department. Our approximately 600 permanent and temporary employees fight fires on more than 13 million acres of private and state-owned forest lands. Our fire protection and safety equipment requirements help your local fire district respond to wildfires. We also work with the National Weather Service to provide the fire weather forecasts and fire precaution levels for you, the firefighters, forest landowners, and the forest industry. We use hand crews, engines, dozers, water tenders, helicopters and planes to help put out wildfires. Here's how to provide equipment and services for fire suppression.
FIRE TRAINING ACADEMY - DNR hosts interagency fire training academies to provide quality wildland fire training at no-cost to Washington's in-state interagency firefighting partners. Each academy uses local, state and federal firefighters' expertise to teach the courses.
