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Tennessee-Kentucky Wildland Fire Academy


  • Bell Buckle, TN United States (map)

Southern Area Wildland Fire Interagency Training is holding a Tennessee-Kentucky Wildland Fire Academy from January 26 to February 7, 2026. Nominations close September 12, 2025.

Tennessee Fire Service & Codes Academy

2161 Unionville Deason Rd. Bell Buckle, TN 37020


Tuition: $100 per day in-person courses | $50 per day virtual courses
Students from the following sponsoring agencies will not be charged tuition:

  • Cherokee National Forest

  • Daniel Boone National Forest

  • Land Between the Lakes NRA

  • Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest

  • USFS Regional Office in Atlanta (not the entire region)

  • Kentucky Division of Forestry

  • Tennessee Division of Forestry

  • Region 4 USFWS

  • Southeast Region NPS

  • US Army Installation Management Command

  • US Air Force Wildland Fire Branch

The TN-KY Wildland Fire Academy is reserved for NWCG agencies and partners. If you are not employed by, or affiliated, with one of these organizations you will not be accepted into courses.