Federal fire job ads list Battle Mountain as a town to work in. Since 2016, 156 job ads named Battle Mountain. 42 needed no experience.
1 job open in Battle Mountain right now (1 need no experience) โ1
job open now. 1 needs no experience.
4
no-experience job ads in a typical year
23
fires started within 50 miles since July 2026. 12 stayed under 10 acres.
1 open job ad names Battle Mountain, live from USAJOBS. Jobs that need no experience are first. An ad that says "Multiple Locations" covers Battle Mountain and other towns.
Multiple Locations · Office of the Secretary of the Interior
๐ฐ ~$77Kโ$129K a season with overtime & hazard pay (est.)
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๐ฑ 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 Battle Mountain. Other agencies post fire jobs too, and some crews work from a base that is not on that list.
23 fires started within 50 miles since July 18, 2026, when our fire records begin. Most were small: 12 of the 23 stayed under 10 acres. An acre is about the size of a football field. These are the 8 biggest.
The distance is from Battle Mountain to the point where each fire was first reported. Fire data comes from the government's national fire list.
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