About Us

The Department: “Only Our Best Will Do”

Formed in 1971 and established as a fire district in 1979, the Big Sky Fire Department serves over 80 square miles of south central Montana in the unincorporated mountain resort area of Big Sky. As a full service department, we provide ALS transport emergency medical services, structural and wildland fire suppression, hazardous materials incident response and rescue services.  In addition, the BSFD performs building and development plan review and inspection, first aid and CPR education, fire prevention and fire safety education and assists the community by providing defensible space education for properties in our wildland urban interface environment.

We are an energetic organization of career firefighters/paramedics and firefighter/emergency medical technicians working from two stations and responding to over 1300 emergency incidents annually.  We take great pride in our work and our excellent customer service evaluations, as measured by our client surveys.  The department is overseen by an elected Board of Trustees who sets district policies, provides for the annual budget and supervises the fire chief.

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big sky fire department at scene of rollover crash

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Station 1

650 Rainbow Trout Run in the Westfork Meadows neighborhood in Gallatin County.

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Station 1 is the headquarters of the department and is staffed by career members duty 24/7/365.

Station 2

9091 Lone Mountain Trail near the intersection of Sitting Bull Road in Madison County.

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Station 2 is staffed by career members duty 24/7/365.