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S. 2015 — National Prescribed Fire Act of 2025

2%becomes law moderate confidencepending: Senate reported

National Prescribed Fire Act — reported and queued, quiet for 171 days; 15% to reach the floor, 2% to become law.

15%
reaches a floor vote
×
>99%
passes if voted (stage model)
×
14%
survives downstream
=
2%
becomes law
The gap: on the floor this would pass — 56% by the member-vote simulation — but the floor is the hard part: 15% to ever get the vote. That gap, not the whip count, is the story.

If it reaches the floor

majority
60 (cloture)

Projected 68 yea of 100 voting; 90% interval 44–96 (quartiles 54–86). Intervals are backtest-verified to cover ~90%.

Filibusterable: the realistic Senate line is 60 votes — P(≥60) = 56% (simple-majority P = 92%).

By floor procedure

No vote is scheduled, so the headline marginalizes over how the Senate would take it up; the branches:

ProcedureLikelihood Projected yeaPasses
conference5% 70 [47–96] 94%
passage95% 67 [43–96] 91%

Receipts

Sponsor: Ron Wyden (D). Latest action (2025-12-17): Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Full record: Congress.gov.

Forecast run predict-20260606T193507Z · models member-vote-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 + passage-1.0.0-t117d118-20260606 · conditional whip forecasts for the Senate run at moderate confidence (why).