Fire Protection: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 27 measures from the 2025-26 session under Fire Protection. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and measures with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1001 · Rural counties, establishing competitive grant program for fire protection capital projects, new chapter
- HB 1048 · Wildfires, requiring rangeland fire protection association pilot project
- HB 1271 · Mobilization, permitting in anticipation of emergency
- HB 1522 · Wildfire mitigation plans, permitting utilities to file
- HB 1539 · Wildfire mitigation and resiliency standards, creating work group
- HB 1563 · Prescribed fire claims fund pilot program, for coverage for losses from prescribed fires and cultural burning
- HB 1628 · Fire service policy board, state, creating
- HB 1654 · International fire code, modifying responsibility for unincorporated areas
- HB 1969 · Sheriff's offices, including in fire department response
- HB 2089 · Tax revenue adjustment for wildfire response, forest restoration, and community resilience account
- HB 2104 · Local aviation resources pilot program made permanent
- HB 2224 · Fire protection district formation modifications
- HB 2237 · Fire marshal office separation from WSP examined
- HB 2407 · Strengthen Washington homes program created to provide grants for wildfire risk mitigation for insurable dwellings
- HB 2472 · Fire code officials' authority and investigations of fire protection sprinkler fitting or residential sprinkler work
- HJM 4009 · Federal wildfire response entities' preparedness
- SB 5329 · Smoke detectors, making WSP responsible for enforcement
- SB 5430 · Wildfire mitigation plans, permitting utilities to file
- SB 5491 · Prescribed fire claims fund pilot program, for coverage for losses from prescribed fires and cultural burning
- SB 5763 · Law enforcement aviation support grant program established
- SB 5775 · Sales/use tax, local, special authorization for certain public safety and community purposes
- SB 5893 · Appropriation to the wildfire response, forest restoration, and community resilience account
- SB 5919 · Developing best practices for mitigating wildfire risk for agricultural activities
- SB 6037 · Fire protection district formation modifications
- SB 6064 · International fire code, modifying responsibility for unincorporated areas
- SB 6079 · Strengthen Washington homes program created providing grants for wildfire risk mitigation for insurable dwellings
- SJM 8015 · Federal wildfire response entities' preparedness
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.