The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho is the nation's support center for wildland firefighting. Their website provides links to a multitude of fire related content including current fire information, wildland fire statistics, outreach, prevention, and education, safety, science and technology, and training. It links to many fire related websites including the National Interagency Coordination Center, Fire Program Analysis, Healthy Forests Initiative, National Fire Plan, Firewise, and Joint Fire Science Program. The 'Boise' Interagency Fire Center, established in 1965, evolved from separate efforts by the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service to improve fire and aviation support throughout much of the Great Basin and Intermountain West. The Weather Bureau soon added its fire weather forecasting capability to this unique venture. Efforts to pool fire and aviation resources proved so successful that three more natural resource agencies - National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Fish and Wildlife Service - joined the Center in the 1970s. By that time, participating agencies' missions had become national in scope. In early 1993 the Center's name was changed to 'National' Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) to more accurately reflect its national mission. Then in 2002, the National Association of State Foresters established a full-time fire director position at NIFC.

Firefighter safety, and the safety of the public, is a core value and is intrinsic in all areas of wildland fire management. All fire management plans and activities must reflect this commitment. The commitment to and accountability for safety is a joint responsibility of all firefighters, managers, and administrators. The goal of the fire safety program is to provide direction and guidance for safe and effective management in all activities. Safety is the responsibility of everyone assigned to wildland fire, and must be practiced at all operational levels from the national fire director, state/regional director, and unit manger, to employees in the field. Firefighter and public safety always takes precedence over property and resource loss.