Description WDS is the national leader in insurer wildfire services, combining professional wildfire consulting with federally-certified emergency response wildfire suppression services. Founded in 2001 to fulfill initial-attack assignments for the US Forest Service, the company added professional services support in 2005 and launched comprehensive wildfire loss-prevention programs for insurers in 2008.
WDS provides services to the private sector at an wildfire agency-level scale. We cover a 20 state region with highly-experienced personnel, the largest insurance service fleet of wildfire engines in the nation, and an unmatched inventory of wildfire suppression and structure protection equipment and materials. Our mix of professional management and field operation expertise allows us to perform projects and assignments ranging from design and implementation of comprehensive wildfire programs to wildfire suppression and structure protection services.
Wildfire Defense Systems has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 37 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Wildfire Defense Systems employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).
Overall, 48% of employees would recommend working at Wildfire Defense Systems to a friend. This is based on 38 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
43% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Wildfire Defense Systems as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Wildfire Defense Systems.