What is an ICS-209?

The standard incident status summary: the form significant fires file to report size, personnel, threat, and who is in command.

When a fire is significant enough, the incident files an ICS-209: acres, containment, personnel counts, structures threatened, and the management organization in command. The reports roll up into the national picture, including the daily situation report.

The 209 is where a fire’s official numbers come from, and its management-organization field is where command tier shows up in federal incident data.

For contractors

Personnel counts and command tier travel together on the 209, and together they sketch the order profile: hundreds of personnel under a Type 3 IC reads very differently from the same count under a CIMT. The briefing does that read for you.

In the briefing

"Federal incident data" in the briefing is built on what incidents report, including the 209 lane.

Related terms

The NIFC situation report · IMT types

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