National fire management strategy over the past several years has undergone enormous changes and the MFD fire program has restructured to meet the challenge of expanding goals and objectives.  In general, the fire management program administers the following activities for the three field offices: fire suppression and aviation; fuels management including prescribed fire and non-fire landscape treatments; post-wildfire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation; and fire prevention and mitigation.  The MFD collaborates in all aspects of fire management with local and federal agencies including the National Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Utah State Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, and community and county partners.  Details about ongoing and planned fuels management activities and up-to-date information on wildland fires in the Price Field Office area can be found at the Utah Fire Information website.

Price Field Office Fire Management

The 2.5 million acres of public lands within the Price Field Office engage many aspects of the MFD fire program.  The public lands within the field office area average 18 fires a year, burning an average total of 613 acres each year.  High-acreage fires in the past ten years include the 2002 Price Canyon fire, the 2004 Big Canyon fire, and the 2006 Mathis fire.  There are several portions of the field office such as the Roan Cliffs that have the potential for significantly large fires.  Fire management decisions in the Price Field Office must consider many resources including extensive oil and gas development, coal mines, highway and railroad corridors, ranches and grazing land, private lands and infrastructure, areas with high density cultural resources, critical riparian and threatened and endangered species habitat along the green river, and wilderness study areas.