Forestry and Wildfire Experts

We know fire,
so you don’t have to.

Four decades inside state and federal natural resource management and wildland fire strategy — now working for landowners, counsel, and communities.

Wildfire expert witness testimony Cause and origin investigation Wildfire damage valuation Forest stewardship plans Wildfire claims support Ecosystem rehabilitation
  • 40 yrs Inside federal & state fire
  • 3,000+ Client matters
  • $1B+ Claimed losses assessed
  • Plan → Do We implement, not just advise
Plan → Do → Defend

We don’t just advise. We do the work.

We write the stewardship, mitigation, and prevention plans and bring the crews and equipment to carry them out. When fire comes anyway, we reconstruct the suppression, quantify the loss, and defend every number of it under oath.

01 — Plan

Stewardship Planning

We write the stewardship, mitigation, and prevention plans for landowners and communities managing wildland fire risk.

02 — Do

Implementation & Crews

We bring the crews and equipment to carry the plans out — full execution with professional forest management teams.

03 — Defend

Loss Assessment & Defense

When fire comes anyway, we reconstruct the suppression, quantify the loss, and defend every number of it under oath — expert witness and damage quantification.

Attorneys, adjusters & claims professionals

Retain an expert who has stood in front of a judge.

Wildfire expert witness testimony, cause and origin investigation, and damage valuation — with the documentation to make it defensible. Our principals are registered professional foresters and career fire practitioners who have run incident command teams, briefed Congress on forest policy, and testified in complex wildfire litigation.

  • 3,000+ Clients represented
  • $1B+ In claims
  • Since 2007 Courtroom-tested
Why Wildfire Pros

Field-tested and courtroom-tested.

We do not theorize about fire from a lecture hall. We manage it, fight it, and rebuild after it.

A century of combined experience

Four working foresters and fire professionals across federal and private forestry, wildland fire operations, and forest policy.

Defensible documentation

Rigorous analysis built to survive scrutiny — because in wildfire investigation, credibility is the only currency that matters.

Operational credibility

Incident command teams, hotshot crews, and engine bosses. We know what actually happens on the fireline.

Policy fluency

Principals who have briefed Congressional delegations and shaped federal forest policy from the inside.

Frank on Fire

Frank on Fire

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Firefighters working a structure fire at night
Frank on Fire #1

The Wildfire Suppression Card

We grade wildfire suppression teams the way a teacher grades a class — on effectiveness and on transparency. Some of them are not going to like their marks. The Wildfire Suppression Card is a report card on how well the people responsible for putting fires out are actually doing it, and on how honestly they tell the public about it.

Franklin O. Carroll
Managed forest landscape
Frank on Fire #2

Return the Forests to Work

America's public forests were set aside to be cared for and used, in that order. Somewhere in the last fifty years we lost the second half of that sentence, and then we started losing the first half too. A forest that is not managed is not preserved — it is simply left to burn on a schedule nobody chose.

National Wildfire Alliance
Burned hillside in the aftermath of a wildfire
Frank on Fire #3

What the Fire Actually Cost

The number in the newspaper is the number of structures lost. It is the easiest number to count and very close to the least important one. The real bill includes fifty years of growth that will not happen, soil that will not hold water the way it did, and a watershed that will send silt downstream every spring for a decade.

Smacky Bear
Public resource

Wildfires near you

A lot of people don't know how to find out what's burning near them. This is the public wildfire mapper, plus a plain-language guide to reading it.

Preview of the public wildfire activity map
When it matters most

Recovering from wildfire? Start with a conversation.

Whether you are a landowner rebuilding, a law firm building a case, or an agency assessing forest health — the first consultation is free and there is no obligation.

Get in touch

Talk to a wildfire expert.

Free, no-obligation consultation. Call or email us directly — you don’t have to fill out the form.

Frank Carroll, Chief Forester, Wildfire Pros

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