Designating May 2025 as "National Wildfire Preparedness Month".

National Wildfire Preparedness Month would designate May 2025 as National Wildfire Preparedness Month to raise awareness and promote prevention, community resilience, and lifesaving education. It highlights that wildfires have grown in size and season length, gives a 2015–2024 average of 62,435 fires burning 7.6 million acres, reports early‑2025 totals above 10‑year averages, notes nearly 85% of wildland fires are human caused, projects over 60% of States at risk from May to August 2025, cites federal suppression costs above $2.5 billion per year and total damages in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars, and urges actions like home hardening, vegetation management, early warnings, reducing human ignitions, protecting people from smoke, and evacuation planning.