Fire Country fans have had a lot to be excited about since the show first premiered at the end of 2022. Three full seasons of Fire Country have come and gone on CBS since, and the fourth is set to conclude later this month on May 22. Plot details about Season 5 are still being kept under wraps at this time, but it will be easier to predict where things are going after the Season 4 finale, when fans can see who is left standing. CBS has already renewed *Fire Country *for a fifth season, and it’s even confirmed to premiere before the close of 2026. This shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise to longtime Fire Country fans, though, who have been enjoying 20+ new episodes every year since 2022.

It may be a while before Fire Country Season 5 officially arrives, but things are finally starting to take shape. Earlier this year, it was confirmed that Tia Napolitano would step down from her duties as showrunner at the end of Season 4, but the network has since recruited Eric Guggenheim to take over her role. Guggenheim is best known for his work on other hit procedurals like Magnum P.I. and Hawaii Five-0. Over the weekend, it was confirmed that Fire Country Season 5 would feature fewer episodes than Season 4, with the network only greenlighting 13 instead of the usual 20. Collider is thrilled to partner with CBS ahead of Season 4, Episode 18, “Best Man,” to exclusively preview a new sneak peek at the upcoming installment. Alexi (Brett Tucker) and Sharon (Diane Farr) share a moment in the new look at Episode 18, which will see Bode’s past resurface when a volatile chain of events leads to a perilous off-duty rescue.

Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.

You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.

You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.

You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.

You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.

You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.

Fire Country follows Bode Donovan (played by Max Thieriot), a former young convict who joins a firefighting program designed to shorten the sentence of convicted felons. However, joining this new program leads him to the family he’s always been looking for, and the only one who may be able to keep him heading in the right direction moving forward. In addition to starring in the show, Max Thieriot is also one of the head writers of Fire Country, along with Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, who both serve as the show’s creators.

Check out Fire Country on Paramount+ after new episodes air on CBS, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of the show.

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Max Thieriot

Kevin Alejandro

A young convict joins a firefighting program looking for redemption and a shortened prison sentence. He and other inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish massive blazes across the region.