Public Information Officer

Written by

in

Wildfire Knowledge Graph · Public Information

Working definition

An incident-management role responsible for coordinating and communicating approved incident information to the public and media.

Also searched as

PIO

In plain language

An incident-management role responsible for coordinating and communicating approved incident information to the public and media.

Why it matters

Public Information Officer 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 sourceOpen official reference ↗

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