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H.R. 527 119th Congress House

Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025

Official title: To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to establish a grant program for monitoring wildfires by satellite.

Introduced: October 15, 2026 Introduced by: Brittany Pettersen Democratic · Colorado See on congress.gov
Emergency Management
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Jan 16, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
 Votes taken on this bill 1
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Sep 19, 2013 Senate · vote #203 On Passage of the Bill H.R. 527 Passed 97–2 See who voted →
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Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025

This bill requires the U.S. Geological Survey to establish a competitive grant program to fund satellite monitoring of wildfires. The entities eligible to receive the grants are state foresters, emergency managers, and equivalent state officials. Grant recipients must use the funds for purchasing and integrating satellite data on wildfire monitoring and for using the data to detect and manage wildfires. 

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 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 2 Republican 2
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Whitesides, George
California · Oct 15, 2026
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Bera, Ami
California · Jun 18, 2026
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Fitzpatrick, Brian K.
Pennsylvania · Mar 11, 2025
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Obernolte, Jay
California · Jan 16, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 527: Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-527/
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"H.R. 527: Strengthening Wildfire Resiliency Through Satellites Act of 2025." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-527/.
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H.R. 527, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-527/.
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