Incident Action Plan

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Working definition

The documented or communicated objectives, organization, assignments and support information for an operational period.

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IAP

In plain language

The documented or communicated objectives, organization, assignments and support information for an operational period.

Why it matters

Incident Action Plan is useful because it separates one specific part of wildfire behaviour, exposure, operations or evidence from nearby concepts that can otherwise be mixed together.

Primary terminology sourceSearch official NWCG glossary ↗

Tecnobosque explanation reviewed 12 September 2026. Source definitions are authoritative within their stated jurisdiction; the explanatory text above is an independent technical synthesis.