Federal fire job ads list Wapello as a town to work in. Since 2016, 13 job ads named Wapello. 9 needed no experience.
1 job open in Wapello right now (0 need no experience) →1
job open now. 0 need no experience.
1
no-experience job ad in a typical year
0
fires started within 50 miles since July 2026
1 open job ad names Wapello, live from USAJOBS. Jobs that need no experience are first. An ad that says "Multiple Locations" covers Wapello and other towns.
Multiple Locations · Office of the Secretary of the Interior
💰 ~$179K–$299K a season with overtime & hazard pay (est.)
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🌱 No experience needed
No-experience job ads by fire season (the summer you'd work):
'27 is next summer. Its jobs are still being posted, so that bar is not final.
Who posts jobs here
See what wildland firefighters make, with overtime and hazard pay.
Counts come from federal job ads on USAJOBS since 2016. One ad can cover many towns, so this counts ads, not people hired.
The Forest Service office list shows no building in Wapello. Other agencies post fire jobs too, and some crews work from a base that is not on that list.
Our fire records begin in July 18, 2026. No fire in them started within 50 miles of Wapello.
The distance is from Wapello to the point where each fire was first reported. Fire data comes from the government's national fire list.
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