Wildfire Emergency Act of 2025
Latest action (Jul 17, 2025) — on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 30, 2025This bill establishes additional support for forest restoration, the power needs of critical facilities (e.g., hospitals) during extreme weather events, and wildfire mitigation and management.
The bill directs the Forest Service to conduct a 10-year pilot program to carry out up to 20 conservation finance projects to protect, restore, or improve National Forest System land. Such conservation finance projects must (1) leverage other federal or nonfederal investments in addition to funds provided by the Forest Service; and (2) use loaned capital from an investor to cover up-front project costs, with the loaned capital repaid over time by conservation finance project beneficiaries.
The Department of Energy (DOE) must establish a program to improve the energy resilience and energy efficiency of critical facilities (e.g., hospitals).
The bill expands DOE's Weatherization Assistance Program to include support for the use of fire-resistant materials and to increase the amount of financial assistance that may be provided to households for increasing the energy efficiency of their homes.
The bill directs the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior to take certain actions related to detecting and monitoring wildfires.
The Forest Service and Interior must also establish one or more centers in western states to train individuals in methods relevant to the mitigation of wildfire risk.
Additionally, the Forest Service must establish a grant program to support workforce development in forestry and fire management.
Finally, the Forest Service may issue grants to increase community capacity for certain land stewardship activities.
Face Value
as introducedHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Areas of law−8
Amends 2 titles of the US Code (5 and 31) rather than one.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
Who lobbied on this
2 organizationsThese organizations told Congress, in their own quarterly disclosures, that they were lobbying on this bill.
- American Property Casualty Insurance Associationno position stated
“…H.R. 731 Hazardous Fuel Reduction S. 270 Federal Natural Disaster Mitigation Commission H.R. 753 Wildfire Forecasting S.306 Wildfire Forecasting S. 350 Wildfire Resiliency H.R. 1045 Forest Health and Wildfire Institute S. 372 Climate Disaster Mitigation S. 388 Strengthening Building Codes S.…” filing ↗
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companiesno position stated
“…H.R.471 - Fix Our Forests Ac/SENATE VERSION: S.1462 - Fix Our Forests Act S.350 - A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to select and implement landscape-scale forest restoration projects, to assist communities in…” filing ↗
Most filings say only that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took — where that's the case we say so rather than guessing. Quotes are verbatim from the filing. How this is built.
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