To require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out activities to suppress wildfires, and for other purposes.

The bill would set mandatory wildfire-response rules for the Forest Service on National Forest System land meeting one of three high-risk criteria: severe-to-exceptional drought rating, the highest national wildland fire preparedness level, or location in a fireshed ranked in the top 10% for wildfire exposure. On such land, the Forest Service would have to use all available resources to try to extinguish any detected wildfire within 24 hours, and could not inhibit authorized state or local firefighting agencies responding to a wildfire there.

The bill would also limit the Forest Service's use of fire as a management tool to prescribed fires conducted under applicable law, and would let the agency start a backfire or burnout during a wildfire only when ordered by the incident commander or needed to protect firefighter safety, requiring it to fully control any such fire until extinguished. It does not authorize new funding or create a new program.

The Forest Service and its Chief, who would face new mandatory suppression timelines and restrictions; state and local firefighting agencies operating on affected federal land; and communities near National Forest System land experiencing drought, high fire-danger conditions, or high-exposure firesheds.

Communities near high-risk federal forest land could see faster, more aggressive suppression efforts and less federal interference with local firefighters, but the Forest Service would lose some discretion to let wildfires burn for ecological management or to use backfires without specific justification, potentially altering established fire-management practices.

The rules would apply automatically whenever land meets one of the three defined risk triggers—drought rating, national preparedness level 5, or top-10% fireshed exposure—based on existing federal drought, fire-preparedness, and fireshed-risk data sources. The Forest Service would need internal procedures to identify covered land in real time, direct suppression within the 24-hour window, coordinate with state and local agencies without obstructing them, and route backfire/burnout decisions through incident commanders. No new reporting requirement, agency office, or funding mechanism is specified.