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Sponsored by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) · 1 active : 1 Republican
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 629.
Western Wildfire Support Act of 2025
This bill addresses wildfires by authorizing post-fire recovery activities, supporting adoption of technology, and requiring additional federal coordination.
The bill authorizes federal wildfire response and recovery activities by
providing statutory authority for Burned Area Emergency Response Teams to coordinate emergency stabilization and erosion planning, and
establishing an account to fund federal rehabilitation projects in areas impacted by a wildfire (e.g., ecosystem restoration, replacing infrastructure critical for land management).
Additionally, for all hazard types, the bill includes post-disaster assistance in the federal disaster preparedness program and authorizes assistance to states for operating websites to provide information on post-disaster recovery resources.
The bill requires federal agencies to develop and utilize technologies for managing wildfires by
expediting the permitting and use of wildfire detection equipment (e.g., sensors, cameras);
providing funding to Indian tribes for slip-on tanker units that convert vehicles into fire engines;
performing research and development on wildfire response applications of unmanned aircraft systems (e.g., drones);
studying radio communications systems, situational awareness tools, and wildland fire predictive modeling; and
administering a prize competition for technological innovation for managing wildfire-related invasive species.
The bill directs federal agencies to plan and coordinate on wildfire management by
Members fall into . 6 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.
: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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incorporating the best available science and planning tools into spatial fire management policies for federal lands,
collaborating with state agencies for mutual aid in fire suppression (including reimbursing states for suppressing fires caused by military operations), and
studying training gaps for integrating structural (e.g., local) firefighters into wildfire response.







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Ideology is each member’s score. The most moderate members of each party sit nearest the center line and highest on the chart. 6 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 10.5 (needs 5.0).