Incident Response Pocket Guide, 2025 Edition
The 2025 IRPG is now available. Major updates and changes in the 2025 version of the IRPG include:
- Addition of nighttime fuel estimates for reference fuel moisture.
- Updated In Your Fire Weather Forecast section with new materials that use clear text to describe the potential for lightning and impacts of mixing height. This coincides with the removal of the Haines Index and Lightning Activity Level (LAL) by the National Weather Service (NWS).
- Added language to the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) section outlining key considerations for UAS operations, considerations prior to requesting UAS, and aerial ignitions involving UAS.
- The pages on chainsaw operations had the section name updated, and now includes “Indicators of Complexity” and “Chainsaw Operation Standards”.
- Other changes throughout the IRGP were made to modernize language, update specifications for airtankers and water scoopers, and improve formatting.