The basis of the procedural drama is about a group of volunteer and professional firefighters combating wildfires across Northern California. Not only do they have to contend with huge blazes, but also their dramatic personal lives – in particular, for the main character Bode Donovan.
The heat is turned up when Bode is assigned back to his hometown, where he was once the all-American golden boy with a perfect reputation. However, he returns with a criminal record and hoping to prove everyone’s misconceptions wrong.
While there’s no official plot details for Fire Country season 3 yet, we know that the new installment will be a continuation from the explosive season two finale which saw Bode finish his five-year prison sentence early after saving his father from a dangerous campaign fire.
According to TV Guide, season 3 will follow Bode’s difficult journey to becoming a full-time firefighter and finding his way in the world now that he’s out of prison. Napolitano told the publication: “He can have a lot more fun. He can have some joy at Smokey’s and go to Jake’s apartment and do things that a normal 30-year-old man can do. It’ll feel very refreshing and a breath of fresh air because Bode hasn’t been able to do those things for basically our entire show.”
Although Bode is no longer at Three Rock, Fire Country will still focus on the inmates there, as Napolitano added: “We will continue to see the inmates on calls. These programs are always sort of in question. What does it mean to work there? What are inmates getting to learn? We’ll see their connection to 42. It’ll still be part of the show’s DNA, but we might tweak it a little bit.”
It looks like Bode has got his professional life back on course, but the same can’t be said for his love life. In season two, Bode and his ex-girlfriend Gabriela Perez kissed on the final night of the campaign fire, but we were left on a cliffhanger of Gabriela potentially saying “I do” to her fiancé Diego Moreno at their wedding.
The good news is that we will definitely get the answers we’ve been waiting for as Napolitano revealed in an interview with TV Line: “Everyone’s going to get all the answers that they were itching for at the end of our season two finale.”
We’ll also be introduced to Padalecki’s new character Camden, so we’ll have to see how his story plays out when he interacts with Bode. Meanwhile, Thieriot teased to Deadline that there could be some floods involved in season three as he revealed: “I hope to do more stuff with floods. Those are obviously pretty massive and I grew up in an area that was not far from the Russian River, which would flood at times.
“The fire departments are intimately involved in dealing with that. I think it would be fun to do if we can figure out how to do it in a big scale. As a director, it is definitely something I’ve been wanting to do. I’ve thought through a lot of different ways that we can accomplish some of those scenes without it getting too crazy expensive, but still have it feel like a big scale.”
Fire Country season 3: future seasons
While there has been no news on whether Fire Country will be renewed for season four, it’s been revealed that spin-off series Sheriff Country is in the works for the 2025-2026 TV season.
An episode from Fire Country season two served as a backdoor pilot for the new show Sheriff Country, which will follow Edgewater sheriff Mickey Fox, who is also the stepsister of Cal Fire division chief Sharon Leone. In the spin-off, Variety writes that Mickey “investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.”
Deadline reported that Jared Padalecki’s three-episode arc in season three could also lead to his own spin-off. However, the idea is still in early development.
