Northeastern Interagency Coordination Center

NECC is located at the White Mountain National Forest Headquarters in Campton, New Hampshire. The center operates under a signed cooperative agreement between the Northeastern Forest Fire Protection Compact (NFFPC), the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the U.S. National Park Service.

The mission of the Northeastern Interagency Coordination Center is to provide safe, cost effective and timely coordination of resources for Wildland Fire and All Hazard Incidents. NECC will coordinate with all Northeast Forest Fire Protection Compact agencies to meet organizational objectives in an equitable manner while maintaining support for Local, Geographical, and National needs.

The coordination center is staffed by five year-round dispatcher positions. They consist of a Center Manager position provided by White and Green Mountain National Forests, a Northeast Compact member-funded Deputy Center Manager that is hosted by the State of New Hampshire, a dispatcher provided by the U.S. National Park Service, and two initial attack dispatchers provided by the White Mountain National Forest. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service support the center by providing annual operational funds.

In addition to serving the NFFPC area for local wildland fire mobilization needs, the NECC serves as a sub-regional coordination center to the Eastern Area Coordination Center (EACC) located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. EACC has interagency mobilization and coordination responsibility for the federal agencies and states within the 20 northeastern states geographic area.

The NFFPC area covers all of the New England states:

Connecticut • Maine • Massachusetts • New Hampshire • New York • Rhode Island • Vermont

As well as our Canadian partners:

New Brunswick • Newfoundland and Labrador • Nova Scotia • Prince Edward Island • Québec

Our federal partners:

Bureau of Indian Affairs • Green Mountain/Finger Lakes National Forest • U.S. National Park Service • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5 • White Mountain National Forest

And our city partners:

Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY)