Creating better landscapes while enhancing wildlife in Mississippi using prescribed fire.
Acres managed in 2025
We have helped facilitate the prescribed burn of over 15 million acres in MS in 2025.
Research and Innovation
Showcasing ongoing research projects, technological innovations to ocean preservation.
Our Mission
To partner all entities with a vested interest in prescribed fire to increase occurrence of burning on public and private lands to restore ecological function, enhance wildlife and plant communities, and reduce hazardous forest or grassland fuel loads. The Council will encourage the exchange of information among practitioners and advance public understanding of the importance and benefits of prescribed fire.
100% of Donations Goes to Our Mission
Join us in promoting the use of prescribed fire to achieve specific natural resources management goals.
MS wildfires
Let these numbers burn in:
In 2024 alone, there were 1800 wildfires in the state of Mississippi.
These wildfires impacted more than 55,000 acres.
Mississippi is 65% covered by forested acres. Almost 90% of this timberland is privately owned.