Fire Country Season 3 Explainer: All About Fire Country & Where To Watch
Bode's going through it … We'll get you through all the twists and turns!
Posted on Jul 28, 2025 | 12:00pm
Wondering where in blazes you can stream the latest season of Fire Country? Read on to learn all there is to know about Season 3, and get answers to your burning questions from Season 2.
Has Bode (Max Thieriot) stayed on the path toward his goal of becoming a full-fledged Station 42 firefighter? Is Station 42 ready for another bullheaded Leone to join its ranks? And can we count on Three Rock to keep churning out Edgewater firefighters and rescuers? Let's get you caught up on the hit CBS show before the all-new Season 4 begins.
But first, it's time for a SPOILER ALERT: Key plot points from the series, especially from Season 2 and Season 3, will be discussed. So, if you don't want to get burned, as they say, start your Fire Country binge-watch now, and then return to this explainer.
Get Started
All episodes of Fire Country Season 3 are streaming right now on Paramount+. The third season premiered on Oct. 18, 2024, and concluded with a two-episode finale on April 25, 2025.
Subsequent Fire Country seasons track Bode's ups and downs – on the line, where he battles a fire tornado (among other disasters), and in his personal life, where he aims to build bridges with both his biological family, the Leones, and his firefighting family at the Cal Fire organization. He struggles, too, with his attraction to fellow firefighter/EMT Gabriela Perez (Stephanie Arcila) … right up to the day of her wedding.
For Thieriot, the series star and co-creator (who's also an executive producer and occasional director), the CBS Original drama is personal. He grew up in Northern California, and around friends who became firefighters. The 2017 Northern California wildfires sparked the idea of Fire Country.
“I think watching what everybody went through, what all my buddies were experiencing as firefighters, was certainly what made me want to tell the story,” Thieriot told CBS Mornings.
Here's a full rundown of the Fire Country Season 3 cast – and the characters they play:
New guest cast members to the Season 3 lineup include Jared Padalecki, as a Southern Californian fire captain who becomes Bode’s instructor, and Leven Rambin as a former member of the prison fire camp who earns a spot at Station 42.
Major guest stars also help light up the third season of Fire Country: Morena Baccarin as Sharon’s sister, Sheriff Mickey Fox, and W. Earl Brown, who plays Mickey’s father, Wes Fox – both from the upcoming spin-off series Sheriff Country, premiering this October on CBS, and streaming on Paramount+ with the Paramount Premium Plan. Last but not least, GRAMMY® nominee Jelly Roll nails the role of Noah, a former convict now working as a healthcare worker.
Meanwhile, a second section of the helicopter crashes through the roof of the local bar, Smokey’s Tavern. Inside, Jake, Station 42’s fire battalion captain, struggles to reach his injured child, Gen (Alix West Lefler), who is trapped behind debris. Jake's got other struggles: He's coming to terms with the possibility that his former high school classmate, Rick (Adam Aalderks) – a longtime bad boy, and the man currently comforting Gen in the midst of the rubble – may be Gen’s biological father.
The drama is nonstop: Yet another bit of the copter hits the police car ferrying Gabriela’s father, Manny, to jail for punching Luke Leone, Cal Fire’s division chief. As the former fire captain of Three Rock, Manny had lashed out at Luke’s suggestion that the camp was at risk of shutting down because of Manny’s mismanagement. Though Sharon temporarily releases Manny from handcuffs so that he can help out during the helicopter disaster, the reprieve is temporary: Manny draws a stint in Three Rock – this time as an inmate. Gabriela expresses her fury at him over his reckless choices and overbearing nature.
Following his work in the helicopter calamity, and the completion of his time at Three Rock, Bode pursues his dream of becoming a professional firefighter. At the exam for the fire-cadet program, Bode is asked to describe the night he and Gabriela rescued Gil. Bode lies about the allergy mishap, claiming that he and Gabriela hadn't seen the allergy pendant. But when Jake later discovers the medallion in Bode’s locker, he gives Bode and Gabriela a stern warning. Gabriela realizes that she and Bode bring out the worst in each other, and declares to Bode that they cannot be a couple.
Bode develops a crush on Audrey, a fellow fire cadet who ultimately becomes a firefighter at Station 42. Gabriela, meanwhile, spirals into depression. She struggles to pay off her aborted wedding, get over her feelings for both Bode and Diego, and mourn her damaged relationship with her father. Unable to cope with her sadness in a healthy way, she hooks up with Jake, who harbors his own sadness about his daughter’s paternity (she’s Rick’s!). Later, a distraught Gabriela walks into the woods during a major fire. Fortunately, Manny finds and rescues her from the flaming forest, and the two resolve their grievances with one another.
Back at Station 42, battalion chief Vince mourns his father’s mental deterioration; Walter used to be 42’s battalion chief himself, but now the Leones must place him in a care facility. Jake sets his sights on a promotion, wondering if the battalion chief role will ever be available to him. Gabriela is given a temporary suspension from Cal Fire for her recent behavior, but her brush with death – as well as her renewed bond with her dad – has given her a sense of peace. She accepts Bode and Audrey’s relationship, and turns her attention to finding a new romantic option for herself. She finds a candidate in Finn (Blake Lee), an attentive photographer.
Suddenly, a Three Rock inmate becomes sick and dies after complaining of cold-like symptoms. It’s not long before other inmates, including Manny, fall similarly ill. The culprit? Pesticides in the well water. Eve, the captain at Three Rock, and her compatriots at Cal Fire feel frightened and helpless. They learn that a major chemical company known as Oxalta is at fault. Even worse for Cal Fire’s morale is that Jake’s new girlfriend, Violet (Nesta Cooper), is Oxalta’s general counsel. All is not lost, however. Violet loves Jake, and she deliberately leaves her phone in a spot where Eve will see it and read incriminating information about the corporation. With Sharon’s help, Eve uses the damning info to get Oxalta back to the table and talking numbers. As a result, Three Rock gets cleaned up, poisoning victims receive settlements, and Manny nabs an early prison release.
Gabriela discovers that Finn is a dangerous stalker after he sets fire to his own house in an effort to lure her to him. Nervous about the wrath of the Cal Fire team, he goes on the run, but the firefighters later spot him lurking around the station. Gabriela holes up with Audrey in the Leone house, gun at the ready. Finn enters the residence through an upstairs window, tasing Audrey and trying to sweet talk Gabriela into a happily ever after with him. Meanwhile, raging fires have developed all around the area, leaving Jake with nary a moment to celebrate his new job: Battalion Chief at a fire station in Butte, Montana. The fires, which are ravaging Three Rock, also leave Eve with little time to consider whether she wants to start a family with her girlfriend, Francine (Katie Findlay); by the day’s end, there will be little left to the conservation camp.
Manny helps contain a gas-station fire, then rushes back to his daughter to discover the gun in Gabriela’s hand and a gaping chest wound in Finn. Manny, Gabriela, and Audrey race to get the stalker to a hospital, but are thwarted by flames. Finn dies in the vehicle, and Audrey admits to being the person who killed him.
Bode’s knee is busted, so Vince and Sharon demand that he remain at the station while the crews of Station 42 and Three Rock fight the inferno. But when Bode gets a call from Walter that flames are headed toward his care facility, he beelines to the address. Though Bode evacuates most of the residents, his knee ultimately buckles, preventing him from retrieving Walter from the fiery hallways. Sharon and Vince arrive and enter the building to recover the elderly Leone. As the building explodes with his mother, father, and paternal grandfather inside, Bode watches from the parking lot, horrified.
Fire Country Season 4 - Premiere Week
Fire Country Season 4 - Week #2
*New Fire Country episodes can be streamed live on Paramount+ as they air on your local CBS TV station via the Paramount+ Premium plan, and/or they can be streamed on the day after they air via any Paramount+ plan.
Get Started
Has Bode (Max Thieriot) stayed on the path toward his goal of becoming a full-fledged Station 42 firefighter? Is Station 42 ready for another bullheaded Leone to join its ranks? And can we count on Three Rock to keep churning out Edgewater firefighters and rescuers? Let's get you caught up on the hit CBS show before the all-new Season 4 begins.
But first, it's time for a SPOILER ALERT: Key plot points from the series, especially from Season 2 and Season 3, will be discussed. So, if you don't want to get burned, as they say, start your Fire Country binge-watch now, and then return to this explainer.
When will Fire Country Season 3 be released?
All episodes of Fire Country Season 3 are streaming right now on Paramount+. The third season premiered on Oct. 18, 2024, and concluded with a two-episode finale on April 25, 2025. How many episodes are in Fire Country Season 3?
Fire Country Season 3 consists of 20 episodes. Here's the list:- “What the Bride Said”
- “Firing Squad”
- “Welcome to the Cult”
- “Keep Your Cool”
- “Edgewater's About to Get Real Cozy”
- “Not Without My Birds”
- “False Alarm”
- “Promise Me”
- “Coming in Hot”
- “The Leone Way”
- “Fare Thee Well”
- “I'm the One Who Just Goes Away”
- “My Team, “Death Trap”
- “One Last Time"
- “Dirty Money”
- “Fire and Ice”
- “Eyes and Ears Everywhere”
- “A Change in the Wind”
- “I’d Do It Again”
What is Fire Country about?
Fire Country Season 1 introduces us to Bode, a felon who opts to join the prison-release Cal Fire firefighting program at Three Rock Conservation Camp rather than serve a lengthy sentence. What he doesn’t realize, however, is that the program will oblige him to move back to Edgewater, the Northern California hometown he’s spent years avoiding. Back in Edgewater, Bode is forced to confront past mistakes and fractured relationships. He works to earn trust from his peers, as well as gain the skills necessary to become a legitimate firefighter.Subsequent Fire Country seasons track Bode's ups and downs – on the line, where he battles a fire tornado (among other disasters), and in his personal life, where he aims to build bridges with both his biological family, the Leones, and his firefighting family at the Cal Fire organization. He struggles, too, with his attraction to fellow firefighter/EMT Gabriela Perez (Stephanie Arcila) … right up to the day of her wedding.
For Thieriot, the series star and co-creator (who's also an executive producer and occasional director), the CBS Original drama is personal. He grew up in Northern California, and around friends who became firefighters. The 2017 Northern California wildfires sparked the idea of Fire Country.
“I think watching what everybody went through, what all my buddies were experiencing as firefighters, was certainly what made me want to tell the story,” Thieriot told CBS Mornings.
Who is in the Fire Country Season 3 cast?
Fire Country Season 3 centers on Edgewater's first family of firefighters, the Leones: Bode (Thieriot), his dad Vince (Billy Burke), his mom Sharon (Diane Farr), his uncle Luke (Michael Trucco), and his grandfather, Walter (Jeff Fahey). But the town – and the ensemble cast – is broader than that.Here's a full rundown of the Fire Country Season 3 cast – and the characters they play:
- Max Thieriot as Bode Donovan/Bode Leone
- Billy Burke as Vincent ("Vince") Leone
- Kevin Alejandro as Manuel ("Manny") Perez
- Diane Farr as Sharon Leone
- Stephanie Arcila as Gabriela Perez
- Jordan Calloway as Jake Crawford
- Jules Latimer as Eve Edwards
- Leven Rambin as Audrey James
- Tye White as Cole Rodman
- Michael Trucco as Luke Leone
- Jeff Fahey as Walter Leone
- Rafael de la Fuente as Diego Moreno
New guest cast members to the Season 3 lineup include Jared Padalecki, as a Southern Californian fire captain who becomes Bode’s instructor, and Leven Rambin as a former member of the prison fire camp who earns a spot at Station 42.
Major guest stars also help light up the third season of Fire Country: Morena Baccarin as Sharon’s sister, Sheriff Mickey Fox, and W. Earl Brown, who plays Mickey’s father, Wes Fox – both from the upcoming spin-off series Sheriff Country, premiering this October on CBS, and streaming on Paramount+ with the Paramount Premium Plan. Last but not least, GRAMMY® nominee Jelly Roll nails the role of Noah, a former convict now working as a healthcare worker.
What happens in Fire Country Season 3? Plot synopsis & season-finale cliffhanger
Fire Country Season 3 picks up in the aftermath of Season 2's campaign fire (and Bode and Gabriela's kiss), and just as Gabriela is about to marry Diego, her former paramedic instructor. Before Gabriela and Diego can say "I do," a piece of helicopter flies through the church window. Gabriela and Diego depart the wedding without completing their vows, and they and Bode rush to the site of the downed copter. Embers mingle with the leaked fuel, igniting a forest fire. Gabriela and Bode move on to tend to Gil (Paul Moniz de Sa), another firefighter. During the frantic mission, Bode and Gabriela fail to notice Gil's allergy necklace, and administer a medication that nearly kills him.Meanwhile, a second section of the helicopter crashes through the roof of the local bar, Smokey’s Tavern. Inside, Jake, Station 42’s fire battalion captain, struggles to reach his injured child, Gen (Alix West Lefler), who is trapped behind debris. Jake's got other struggles: He's coming to terms with the possibility that his former high school classmate, Rick (Adam Aalderks) – a longtime bad boy, and the man currently comforting Gen in the midst of the rubble – may be Gen’s biological father.
The drama is nonstop: Yet another bit of the copter hits the police car ferrying Gabriela’s father, Manny, to jail for punching Luke Leone, Cal Fire’s division chief. As the former fire captain of Three Rock, Manny had lashed out at Luke’s suggestion that the camp was at risk of shutting down because of Manny’s mismanagement. Though Sharon temporarily releases Manny from handcuffs so that he can help out during the helicopter disaster, the reprieve is temporary: Manny draws a stint in Three Rock – this time as an inmate. Gabriela expresses her fury at him over his reckless choices and overbearing nature.
Following his work in the helicopter calamity, and the completion of his time at Three Rock, Bode pursues his dream of becoming a professional firefighter. At the exam for the fire-cadet program, Bode is asked to describe the night he and Gabriela rescued Gil. Bode lies about the allergy mishap, claiming that he and Gabriela hadn't seen the allergy pendant. But when Jake later discovers the medallion in Bode’s locker, he gives Bode and Gabriela a stern warning. Gabriela realizes that she and Bode bring out the worst in each other, and declares to Bode that they cannot be a couple.
Bode develops a crush on Audrey, a fellow fire cadet who ultimately becomes a firefighter at Station 42. Gabriela, meanwhile, spirals into depression. She struggles to pay off her aborted wedding, get over her feelings for both Bode and Diego, and mourn her damaged relationship with her father. Unable to cope with her sadness in a healthy way, she hooks up with Jake, who harbors his own sadness about his daughter’s paternity (she’s Rick’s!). Later, a distraught Gabriela walks into the woods during a major fire. Fortunately, Manny finds and rescues her from the flaming forest, and the two resolve their grievances with one another.
Back at Station 42, battalion chief Vince mourns his father’s mental deterioration; Walter used to be 42’s battalion chief himself, but now the Leones must place him in a care facility. Jake sets his sights on a promotion, wondering if the battalion chief role will ever be available to him. Gabriela is given a temporary suspension from Cal Fire for her recent behavior, but her brush with death – as well as her renewed bond with her dad – has given her a sense of peace. She accepts Bode and Audrey’s relationship, and turns her attention to finding a new romantic option for herself. She finds a candidate in Finn (Blake Lee), an attentive photographer.
Suddenly, a Three Rock inmate becomes sick and dies after complaining of cold-like symptoms. It’s not long before other inmates, including Manny, fall similarly ill. The culprit? Pesticides in the well water. Eve, the captain at Three Rock, and her compatriots at Cal Fire feel frightened and helpless. They learn that a major chemical company known as Oxalta is at fault. Even worse for Cal Fire’s morale is that Jake’s new girlfriend, Violet (Nesta Cooper), is Oxalta’s general counsel. All is not lost, however. Violet loves Jake, and she deliberately leaves her phone in a spot where Eve will see it and read incriminating information about the corporation. With Sharon’s help, Eve uses the damning info to get Oxalta back to the table and talking numbers. As a result, Three Rock gets cleaned up, poisoning victims receive settlements, and Manny nabs an early prison release.
Gabriela discovers that Finn is a dangerous stalker after he sets fire to his own house in an effort to lure her to him. Nervous about the wrath of the Cal Fire team, he goes on the run, but the firefighters later spot him lurking around the station. Gabriela holes up with Audrey in the Leone house, gun at the ready. Finn enters the residence through an upstairs window, tasing Audrey and trying to sweet talk Gabriela into a happily ever after with him. Meanwhile, raging fires have developed all around the area, leaving Jake with nary a moment to celebrate his new job: Battalion Chief at a fire station in Butte, Montana. The fires, which are ravaging Three Rock, also leave Eve with little time to consider whether she wants to start a family with her girlfriend, Francine (Katie Findlay); by the day’s end, there will be little left to the conservation camp.
Manny helps contain a gas-station fire, then rushes back to his daughter to discover the gun in Gabriela’s hand and a gaping chest wound in Finn. Manny, Gabriela, and Audrey race to get the stalker to a hospital, but are thwarted by flames. Finn dies in the vehicle, and Audrey admits to being the person who killed him.
Bode’s knee is busted, so Vince and Sharon demand that he remain at the station while the crews of Station 42 and Three Rock fight the inferno. But when Bode gets a call from Walter that flames are headed toward his care facility, he beelines to the address. Though Bode evacuates most of the residents, his knee ultimately buckles, preventing him from retrieving Walter from the fiery hallways. Sharon and Vince arrive and enter the building to recover the elderly Leone. As the building explodes with his mother, father, and paternal grandfather inside, Bode watches from the parking lot, horrified.
Where does Fire Country Season 3 take place?
Fire Country Season 3 takes place in the fictional town of Edgewater, as well as surrounding areas of Northern California.Will there be a Fire Country Season 4?
Yes! There will be a Fire Country Season 4. The show is scheduled to return for its new season on Friday, Oct. 17, at 8 PM ET/PT, before settling into its regularly scheduled 9 PM ET/PT time slot on Friday, Oct. 24. All new episodes of Fire Country air on CBS, and stream on Paramount+. See the schedule below.Fire Country Season 4 - Premiere Week
- Episode: Season 4, Episode 1
- Date: Friday, Oct. 17
- Time: 8-9 PM ET/PT
- Channel: CBS
- Streaming: Paramount+*
Fire Country Season 4 - Week #2
- Episode: Season 4, Episode 2
- Date: Friday Oct. 24
- Time: 9-10 PM ET/PT
- Channel: CBS
- Streaming: Paramount+*
*New Fire Country episodes can be streamed live on Paramount+ as they air on your local CBS TV station via the Paramount+ Premium plan, and/or they can be streamed on the day after they air via any Paramount+ plan.