The National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC) offers unique programs that blend prescribed (Rx) burning experience with a flexible curriculum covering foundational topics for prescribed fire practitioners and fire and fuels managers. Emphasis is placed on field experience, providing maximum opportunities for a multitude of agencies and organizations to build skills and knowledge of prescribed fire.
NIPFTC's headquarters are in Tallahassee, Florida at Tall Timbers. Training locations are dispersed throughout the country. The training locations selected utilize hosts that have burn programs with broad prescription windows and a high level of interagency cooperation. Participants travel to several remote sites during their trainings to take advantage of prescribed burning and learning opportunities with a variety of agencies, fuel types, and challenges such as wildland urban interface.
The core programs NIPFTC provides are 20-day Field Sessions (including Rx Fire Leadership Modules and Rx Fire Leadership for Women Modules) and an Agency Administrator Workshop.