Real beds on the fire line.
Owned outright. No debt.

In high season the U.S. wildland fire service fields at minimum 10,000 — and routinely more than 30,000 — firefighters on active incidents. The majority sleep on the ground between 16-hour shifts: in personal tents when they have them, often on a tarp and a sleeping bag when they don't — for weeks at a time, while mental-health strain and suicide rates in the profession climb. The data and the camp photos are further down this page.

That is the standard the fire service wants to build toward, and it is the problem this fleet exists to solve. The model plans on a May-to-September season of 153 nights and bills each bed for 130 of them. Because the units are fully mobile, off-season work adds revenue on top of the fire season.

Today — crews on the ground

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Because until this year, nobody in charge said it had to be. Sleeping in the dirt was treated as part of the job, and fatigue management was not a written priority. That changed on April 17, 2026, when the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group, the body that sets national priorities for wildland fire, directed incident teams to pilot new rest and sleep arrangements for the 2026 season. Sleeper trailers, and modern ones with private compartments, are named in it several times.

Federal wildland fire is being restructured right now. The U.S. Wildland Fire Service was formally established inside the Department of the Interior in January 2026, and over the next one to three budget cycles Congress will decide the new service's structure, its budget, and how that budget is spent — including firefighter housing, which is already named in the service's own budget justification. Fire service leadership has been direct: this trial phase must prove the concept before that budget is set.

If the pilot performs through the trial window, the service's stated direction is beds for its deployed force at scale — a program hundreds of times the size of this fleet. Scale figures reflect the service's signaled intent, not a committed contract; what this raise buys is the operating proof, the direct contract relationship, and first position in that program before the budget is written.

The fleet owner holds the homes outright, with no lender behind them. The operations partner brings the work and runs the field side, and Cocoon builds the units and manages the business for the owners.

There is no lender and no note. Two cash investors and Cocoon’s principals own the fleet together, and every dollar of profit belongs to them. Choose how profit is used: paid out every year, or reinvested into more duplexes.

The fire season runs May to September. The fleet is mobile all 365. In the base case, the operations partner rents the units for its Trade Outpost program for 215 off-season nights at about $98 per duplex per night. Beyond that, the same duplexes serve a deep bench of adjacent buyers.

These are not converted trailers or camp shells. Cocoon builds to residential standards with deliverable capability: conventional wood-framed homes on steel trailer chassis, with residential doors, windows, and finishes — standing-seam metal roofs, dedicated mini-split climate control on every unit, and running gear engineered for repeated transport. The fleet's duplex sleeper units are purpose-configured for crew rest, built to the same standard shown here.

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The duplex sleeper layout: two fully private units per build, each with its own entrance, kitchen, bed, and private bath (concept floor plan)