Hazardous Duty Pay for Prescribed Wildland Fire

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2025-09-02 — To amend section 5545 of title 5, United States Code, to provide hazard pay for carrying out prescribed burns, and for other purposes.: cross-connection with federal-hazard-pay-prescribed-burns: Both address extending hazardous duty pay to federal employees engaged in prescribed (controlled) wildland fire operations, a category historically treated differently than wildfire suppression. (novelty: 2)
2026-08-14 — Differential Pay for Prescribed Wildland Fire Activities: Final rule extends the existing hazardous duty pay / environmental differential framework to add a 25% differential for GS and Federal Wage System firefighters working the fireline on prescribed (planned) wildland fires, aligning prescribed-fire compensation with wildfire fireline pay for a narrow set of federal firefighting crews. (novelty: 2)