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Community Wildfire Defense Grant - March 2023 Funded Proposals


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The Community Wildfire Defense Program assists at-risk communities, including Tribal communities, with planning for and lowering wildfire risks on tribal, state, and privately-managed land. The program comes at a time when the nation faces an ongoing wildfire crisis, and these grants support the Forest Service’s plan to confront the wildfire crisis across all lands. 

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Funded Proposals by State:

Round 1

 

Village of Aniak, Native Village of Aniak Community Wildfire Protection Plan
$217,038 to complete a Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The community is historically underserved, vulnerable, and will likely experience difficulty preparing for and responding to wildfire. Aniak has, on average, greater wildfire likelihood than 82% of tribal areas and counties in Alaska.

International Association of Fire Chiefs, Exercise and Project Implementation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans
$341,217 for the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) to provide peer-to-peer guidance, subject-matter expertise, and funding to aid in the exercise and implementation of projects within 2022 Gila County's Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) over a 24-month period. The CWPP identify high-priority projects including the No. 1 priority in both plans, community education and outreach, evacuation planning, and fuels mitigation projects all of which are aimed at reducing wildfire risk to the community.

  • Briceland Volunteer Fire Department, Fire Hazard Reduction Project
    $205,251 to create a Fire Hazard Reduction Crew, to conduct roadside clearance and improve fuel breaks along otherwise unmaintained roads, creating safer routes for emergency response and evacuation and reducing the chance of roadside ignitions.
  • Butte County Fire Department, Butte County Fire Defensible Space Inspection Project
    $4,900,000 to implement a comprehensive year-round Defensible Space Inspection (DSI) program that focuses on community outreach and voluntary compliance while also providing a process to enforce local defensible space and vegetation management regulations for parcels that remain persistently non-compliant.
  • Butte County Fire Department, Butte County Fire Equipment Acquisition
    $1,500,000 to purchase excavator equipment for an 8,000-acre Hazardous Fuel Reduction project.
  • Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians, Chicken Ranch Fuel Mitigation
    $315,599 to conduct fuels reduction within their Tribal and adjacent lands and train Tribal personnel in Cultural and Traditional Fire Management through a partnership with Hoopa Valley Tribal Council. Completing this project allows for the Tribe to self-support regular and ongoing smaller-scale fuels reduction activities on their lands as a planned maintenance activity.
  • Clear Lake Environmental Research Center, Lake County Wildfire Risk Reduction Project Phase 1
    $9,805,642 The Project will reduce fuels and restore fire-adapted ecosystems on private lands and roadways to lessen wildfire risk of damage to property while improving firefighter safety. Project will be accomplished in part by funding a Fuels Team employed by the Northshore Fire Protection District.
  • Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Coyote Valley Community Fire Defense Project
    $959,648 to restore and maintain landscapes making them resilient to fire-related disturbances, to create a fire adapted community to withstand a wildfire without loss of life and property, and to responsibly make and implement safe, effective, efficient risk-based wildfire management decisions. A fire mitigation specialist will be hired by the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians to lead and coordinate the project, as well as develop a tribal evacuation plan and conduct outreach and education.
  • Del Norte Fire Safe Council, Del Norte Wildfire Resiliency Program
    $3,089,552 to create a Hazardous Fuels Reduction crew to perform defensible space work around residences and create shaded fuel breaks. This project will provide training, education, public outreach and implement a county-wide RX burn association with landowners to create Firewise communities.
  • Feather River Resource Conservation District, Plumas Emergency Forest Restoration
    $8,543,433 to provide hazardous fuels reduction and tree planting for ecological restoration over the next 5 years on 5,000 acres of lands impacted by large fire.
  • Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County, Siskiyou County Home Assessment, Defensible Space and Education Project
    $9,997,998 to provide home assessment, defensible space work on approximately 500 homes, hazardous fuels reduction work on 300 acres and public education.
  • Humboldt County Resource Conservation District, Greater Willow Creek Wildfire Resilience Project
    $5,027,427 to implement a suite of area-wide outreach, education, and implementation actions as well as the implementation of 9 priority fuels reduction projects encompassing 25 CWPP priority sites.
  • Kern County Fire Department, Kern County Fire Prescribed Fire Project
    $2,225,207 to purchase firing equipment and two transport trailers to support the Kern County Fire Department Prescribed Fire Program. This equipment will be used to provide more efficient logistical support of setting up and performing prescribed burns.  
  • Kern County Fire Department, Prescribed Fire Training Project
    $513,533 to provide training and qualifying Kern County Fire Department prescribed fire cadre members. These personnel will be utilized to provide required planning, direction, oversight, and technical expertise when using prescribed fire around Kern
    County's high-risk communities.
  • Kern Fire Safe Council: Be Aware, Be Prepared: Defend Your Space!
    $540,210 to fund a project focused on bringing wildfire hazard reduction to the community and the homeowner. Funding will provide a project manager, outreach coordinator, HIZ assessors with training. Also, digital tools to implement and monitor the project along with data collection. Additionally, fuels reduction, event expenses, supplies and mileage.
  • Mattole Restoration Council, Prosper Ridge Community Wildfire Resilience Project
    $2,175,132 to hazardous fuels treatment on 450 acres of land bordering the King Range National Conservation Area.  Various treatment methods will be used from prescribed treatment, mechanical and hand thinning. 
  • Nevada County, CWPP Update
    $250,000 to update the Nevada County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) thereby providing a scientifically defensible and locally endorsed road map articulating the severity of the hazards that exist and the priority actions that must be taken to mitigate the risk for all communities in Nevada County, CA.
  • Nevada County Resource Conservation District, Prescribed Fire Training for Private Residential Landowners, Nevada County WUI
    $392,542 to provide prescribed fire tools and training to private residents of Nevada County to increase the capacity to carry out prescribed treatments.
  • Plumas County Fire Safe Council, Plumas County Hazardous Fuels Assessment and Implementation
    $6,835,975 to provide 2,000 acres of hazardous fuels reduction and conduct an update of the county-wide Hazardous Fuels Assessment and subsequently initiate implementation of the Assessments recommended priority projects to reduce wildfire risk to the most vulnerable communities and landscapes.
  • Resort Improvement District No.1, Shelter Cove Wildfire Resiliency & Community Defense Project
    $6,222,500 to provide outreach, coordination & Inspections services and conduct 1,211 acres of Hazardous fuels reduction work over a 5-year period. 
  • Resource Conservation District of Tehama County, Tehama East/Tehama West CWPP Update
    $102,040 to update the CWPP for the county over a two-year period, incorporating input from over sixty collaborators and the public. The TE/TW CWPP Update will support local entities' efforts to reduce wildfire risk to communities and local resources.
  • San Diego County Fire, Roadside Vegetation Management for Evacuation Preparedness
    $3,409,443 this project will combine evacuation plan work from 23 Fire Safe Council CWPPs into a single project. Conducting 550 miles of evacuation road work and creating ninety-two temporary safe refuge areas in the rural portions of the county.
  • Sierra County Firesafe & Watershed Council, Sierraville Fuels Reduction
    $2,114,437 to conduct mechanical treatments on a minimum of 500 acres to connect two landscape-scale fuels reduction and community protection projects adjacent to public lands.
  • Sierra County, Sierra County Community Wildfire Mitigation Leadership
    $203,550 to provide planning and project coordination for all of Sierra County.
  • Sierra County, Sierra County CWPP Update
    $51,000 to update the Sierra County CWPP.
  • Sierra Resource Conservation District, Saving the Sierras: 9 Firewise Communities of Eastern Fresno County
    $4,634,210 to provide Hazardous fuels reduction work on 4,163 acres of private land in an area encompassing 9 communities.  This project will also be treating 1,118 acres along HWY 168 and 3,042 acres along HWY 180. 
  • Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation, CWPP 
    $250,000 to develop a CWPP for all Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation tribal properties. This plan will empower the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation to execute several goals including restoring and maintaining landscapes, creating a conscious-minded and fire adapted community, as well as planning mitigation measures or actions to reduce wildfire risk and increase efficiency and effectiveness for wildfire response.
  • Tuolumne County, Tuolumne County Community Wildfire Defense Project
    $10,000,000 to provide defensible space work on approx. 1,290 homes, roadside vegetation management on approx. twenty-three miles of road and outreach to create additional Firewise Communities and other fire adaptive cohorts within at-risk and low-income communities.
  • Tuolumne Utilities District, Wildfire Defense Plan
    $249,927 to create CWPP that will prioritize management actions for the TUD Raw Water Ditch and Potable Water Systems for achieving maximum benefits of community wildfire protection and resilience.
  • City of Ukiah, Ukiah Valley and Mendocino Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project
    $7,214,766 this Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project of 200 acres, will conduct 200 defensible space inspections; maintain 7 current fuel breaks in shaded and non-shaded areas; perform 125 defensible space projects; conduct prescribed burns in appropriate areas to restore fire adapted ecosystems; conduct 5 project assessments; engage the relevant impacted communities to maximize project effectiveness; and increase community fire resiliency in the Ukiah Valley area and throughout Mendocino County, California, over the next 5 years.
  • The Watershed Research and Training Center, Hyampom Community Protection Project
    $1,322,666 to implement 450 acres of hazardous fuel reduction treatments in strategic and critical private land locations including manual thinning and chipping, hand piling, pile burning, prescribed fire.
  • The Watershed Research and Training Center, Middle-Trinity Community Protection Project
    $3,224,452 to implement 1,144 acres of hazardous fuels reduction  treatments to reduce the risk of wildfire in and around Weaverville, Junction City and Douglas City, CA.
  • Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, Shasta County CWPP Update
    $249,999 to update the CWPP for all of Shasta County, a region that has been heavily impacted by wildfire. Fire activity in the region has impacted most projects in the previous CWPP, making it necessary to conduct an update.
  • Yuba County Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update
    $210,646 to update the Yuba Foothills Community Wildfire Protection Plan through community engagement, stakeholder collaboration, and integration of new technologies. This area encompasses local, state, and federal lands near the Tahoe National Forest and Plumas National Forest. The plan is a long-term, large-scale strategic plan for the Yuba County Foothills that leverages local collaboration to develop and prioritize wildfire prevention, preparedness, and resilience opportunities that support and protect local communities and watersheds.
  • Yurok Tribe, Yurok Fire Department, CWPP Update
    $250,000 to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan that identifies critical at-risk communities on the Yurok Indian Reservation. Prioritizing places that are "low income", have "been impacted by a severe disaster", or have "high or very high wildfire hazard potential," as well as protecting sensitive and sacred sites, assist in producing basketry materials, traditional foods, ceremonial regalia, and traditional medicines for the Yurok People. Finally, we recognize our river's health correlates to our human health, correlates to all flora and fauna species health and our main food source, salmon, and sturgeon, as being secondarily benefited by increasing water yields and improving our fish health, habitats, and their lifespans.

Wildfire Adapted Partnership, Archuleta County CWPP Implementation
$1,110,024 to treat 600 acres of hazardous fuels protecting 325 structures, reducing the overall risk of wildfire in the WUI. This project will also reach a minimum of 5,000 individuals through its Firewise USA or similar activities through WAPs Neighborhood Ambassador Program, presentations to HOAs, presentations to other community groups, public events, and public awareness campaigns through the local newspaper and radio station.

Chestatee-Chattahoochee RC&D Council, Rabun County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
$190,440 to create a comprehensive Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Rabun County and will not only identify and rank the entire county as to the wildfire risk within the county but will provide sensible mitigation practices to help reduce those risk, especially those communities within the wildland urban interface.

  • State of Hawaii, Department of Land & Natural Resources, Divsion of Forestry & Wildlife, North West Hawaii CWPP Updates
    $84,700 This project will engage community and agency partners to collaboratively complete a revised hazard assessment, identify shared wildfire concerns, and begin prioritizing risk-reducing actions for purposes of updating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan from 2016.
  • State of Hawaii, Department of Land & Natural Resources, Divsion of Forestry & Wildlife, South Kona CWPP Update
    $84,700 This project will engage community and agency partners in order to collaboratively complete a revised hazard assessment, identify shared wildfire concerns, and begin prioritizing risk-reducing actions for purposes of updating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan from 2015.
  • State of Hawaii, Department of Land & Natural Resources, Divsion of Forestry & Wildlife, Kau CWPP Update
    $84,700 This project will engage community and agency partners in order to collaboratively complete a revised hazard assessment, identify shared wildfire concerns, and begin prioritizing risk-reducing actions for purposes of updating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan from 2015.
  • State of Hawaii, Department of Land & Natural Resources, Divsion of Forestry & Wildlife, Oceanview CWPP Update
    $84,700 This project will engage community and agency partners in order to collaboratively complete a revised hazard assessment, identify shared wildfire concerns, and begin prioritizing risk-reducing actions for purposes of updating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan from 2015.
  • Kauai Fire Department, Updating a CWPP for Kauai County
    $78,000 This project will engage community and agency partners in order to collaboratively complete a hazard assessment, identify shared wildfire concerns, and begin prioritizing risk-reducing actions for purposes of updating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan from 2016.

  • Idaho Department of lands, Clark County Roadside Fuel Breaks
    $690,000 for implementation of 53 miles roughly 260 acres of right-of-way fuel breaks in an expanse of sagebrush steppe, resulting in improved wildfire protection for the WUI communities (700 residences/structures) of Dubois, Kilgore, Spencer, and Medicine Lodge.
  • Idaho Firewise Inc, Idaho County CWPP Education Program Support
    $193,844 to provide outreach and education to proposed communities in Idaho. Along with promoting Firewise Communities specifically in communities receiving fuels reduction projects to increase accountability and maintenance.

Pulaski County Fiscal Court, Pulaski County Wildfire Grant 2022
$73,675 to hire a Project Director to create a new comprehensive Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Pulaski County.

St. Louis City Fire Adapted Communities 
$890,925 to fire departments, lake & road associations, and township boards in the highest wildfire risk areas in St. Louis County to increase wildfire awareness, reduce fuels and provide opportunities to help their communities be more wildfire resilient. The resulting collaboration will yield twenty hazardous fuels mitigations project for a combined 225 acres over the next 5-year period.
 

  • Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Treasure County CWPP Update & Modernization
    $117,648 to provide funding for the update and modernization of Treasure County’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The final product will include an action plan that identifies specific, prioritized projects to promote wildfire-resilient landscapes, foster fire adapted communities, and assist with safe and effective wildfire response.
  • DNRC, Lincoln County WUI Communities Wildfire Risk Mitigation Campaign
    $5,893,905 to implement approx. 500 acres wildfire fuel mitigation work focused in the home ignition zone in partnership with private landowners in the WUI and high-risk private and approx. 3,000 non-federal public lands surrounding at-risk communities, provide education and outreach to residents about addressing wildfire risk and create connectivity between existing and planned landscape-scale fuel mitigation efforts in the project area.
  • DNRC, Blackfoot Watershed Fire Refugia
    $1,683,300 to increase the pace and scale of broadcast burning, in conjunction with fuel reduction thinning, to create communities of "Fire Refugia;" where fire can pass without destroying homes or infrastructure. This project will help treat ~1,500 acres of non-federal forest land.
  • DNRC, North Gallatin Front Wildland Urban Interface Mitigation Project
    $1,589,160 to mitigate the risk of wildland fire on approximately 1,000 acres in a project area in southwestern Montana consisting of 1,077 addressed households within the 28,944 acres of private wildland urban interface land. The project is designed to dovetail with future and current work being conducted on the 72,327 acres of public lands in the project area. This project will provide cost match funding for private property owners to conduct home ignition zone work on about 700 acres and small-scale landscape work on about 300 acres of larger lots.

The Nature Conservancy, Reducing Wildfire Risk in North-Central Nebraska
$182,866 to reduce hazardous fuels/restore fire adapted ecosystems at the 56,000-acre Niobrara Valley Preserve (NVP) to reduce the severity and impacts of wildfire on surrounding communities. This project spans three years and includes six target sites totaling approximately 435 acres. TNC will establish 200-foot-wide fire breaks with the objective of removing all cedar trees and any standing dead trees at these sites and will follow-up with fire.

Somersett Owners Association, Implementation of CWPP Priority Projects to Reduce Catastrophic Impacts of Unmitigated Wildfires
$2,340,061 enabling the community to mitigate the risks of wildfire by leveraging resources, increasing community awareness, and investing in fire fuel mitigation projects that will result in Hazardous Fuels reduction of approx. 900+ acres.

  • Cimarron Watershed Alliance Inc., Colfax Collaborative Wildland Urban Interface Project
    $8,048,150 to create defensible space around homes and structures of value, thin forests to reduce hazardous fuel loadings, maintain existing fuel breaks, and create new fuel breaks. The project will treat about 150-175 properties per year and approx. 3,400 acres over the next five years.
  • Cimarron Watershed Alliance Inc., Flying Horse Ranch Fuel Break Project
    $1,821,254 to maintain and widen an existing four-mile fuel break and then expand it approximately 10.2 miles covering 702 acres. This 14.2-mile fuel break project is a small but critical piece of approximately 75 miles of fuel breaks that are currently being planned and implemented in the Enchanted Circle Priority Landscape within Taos and Colfax Counties.
  • International Association of Fire Chiefs, Exercise and Project Implementation of Community Wildfire Protection Plan
    $235,404 to provide peer-to-peer guidance, subject-matter expertise, and funding to aid in the exercise and implementation of projects within the San Miguel County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (2018) over a 24-month period. The CWPP identifies high priority projects including training, community education and outreach, and evacuation planning projects all aimed at reducing wildfire risk to the community. Unification of stakeholders will support capacity and sustainable actions, evacuation, and recovery operations.
  • Sandoval County, Sandoval CWPP Update
    $63,000 to update the CWPP and make it a useful document for both first responders and community members that live within the wildland urban interface. This will be done through outreach meetings with a wide array of key community stakeholders to determine priorities for the impacted areas.
  • Forest Stewards Guild, Community Wildfire Mitigation in the Greater Santa Fe Fire Shed
    $1,314,366 to deliver accomplishments in measurable timely outcomes over the next five years; 500+ home hazard assessments (HHAs) completed, 125+ of high-priority acres treated through fuels mitigation treatments, increasing the number and geographic coverage of Fire shed ambassadors, and the number of education and outreach events.

  • Carolina Land and Lakes Resource Conservation & Development (RC&D), Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Lower Burke County
    $151,135 to update nine expired Community Wildfire Protection Plans Lower Burke Co., NC.
  • Resource Conservation and Development, Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Anson County
    $151,135 to update four expired Community Wildfire Protection Plans and create (4) new Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Anson Co., NC.
  • Resource Conservation and Development, Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Upper Burke County
    $167,235 to update ten expired Community Wildfire Protection Plans Upper Burke Co., NC.
  • Resource Conservation and Development, Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Avery County
    $118,935 to update seven Community Wildfire Protection Plans that are more than 5 years old in Avery County, NC.
  • Resource Conservation and Development, Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Richmond County
    $155,160 to update three expired Community Wildfire Protection Plans and create five new Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Richmond Co., NC.
  • Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Graham County
    $70,635 to update four Community Wildfire Protection Plans that are more than five years old in Graham County, NC.
  • Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Clay County
    $70,635 to update one expired Community Wildfire Protection Plan and (3) Community Wildfire Protection Plans that are more than five years old in Clay County NC.
  • Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Cherokee County
    $235,660 to update three expired Community Wildfire Protection Plans and create nine Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Cherokee County, NC.
  • Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for the Community of Lansing, Ashe County
    $17,785 to update one Community Wildfire Protection Plan that is more than five years old in the Community of Lansing in Ashe County, NC.
  • Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Yancey County
    $135,035 to update eight Community Wildfire Protection Plans that are more than five years old in Yancey County, NC.
  • Update Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Mitchell County
    $118,935 to update five Community Wildfire Protection Plans that are more than five years old and two expired Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Mitchell County, NC.

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, Turtle Mountain CWPP Update
$248,924 to conduct thorough planning resulting in the adoption of well-prepared plan that addresses issues such as wildfire response, hazard mitigation, community preparedness --which includes smoke readiness-- structure protection and will greatly assist the tribal government in planning and prioritizing project work.

City of Davis, Turner Falls Natural Wildland Restoration Project
$134,477 Decreasing wild fire threat by removing ground and cedar fuel within a high threat fire area while developing accessible firebreaks to enable firefighters access to acreage with little to no current fire equipment access. This will result in the completion of 9 projects with the target of reducing hazardous fuels for a total of 1500 acres.

  • Klamath Watershed Partnership, Chiloquin Wildfire Risk Reduction and Education
    $616,404 to implement 165 acres of defensible space treatments over five years; to develop and implement a "Brush Dump" program that encourages and facilitates landowner and neighborhood-conducted defensible space clean-up projects by providing up to two dump trailers for cleanup activities and then hauling brush to the dump; to design, purchase, and deploy a multi-use wildfire education trailer for community education and outreach 7-10 events per year, and a mobile information distribution point during a wildfire as needed; and to build capacity and sustainability within Chiloquin Fire and Rescue through development of a part-time Mitigation Specialist position to coordinate the activities of this project and to plan future projects.
  • Douglas Electric Cooperative Fuels Treatments, Vegetation Management, and Other Mitigation
    $9,151,505 to reduce fuel buildup in high-risk wildfire areas, enhance the utility right-of-way's ability to function as fire breaks, increase forest health, and minimize the probability that Douglas Electric's transmission and distribution system may be the origin or contributing source for the ignition of a fire. Funding from this program will enable DEC to reduce its vegetation management program to a 3-to-4-year cycle while addressing hazard trees (snags and cycle busters) not in the traditional utility space. The DEC service area covers 2200 square miles, and the project will be conducted along 1,275 miles of power lines.
  • Grant SWCD, Grant County Evacuation Corridor and Fuels Management Project
    $9,907,344 to perform Hazardous Fuels reduction on 308 road miles (616 shoulder miles) of County Roads that serve as evacuation routes for residences in need of treatment Additionally, treat 100,000 acres of fine fuels prioritizing areas around communities and pre-commercially thin 2,000 acres.
  • Oregon Department of Forestry, John Day; Grant County Defensible Space
    $681,041 to focus on 300 acres of fuels reduction treatments for Grant County landowners in the WUI, installation of Firewise Communities, & outreach & education in the high-risk communities of John Day, Mt. Vernon, Prairie City, Dayville, Granite, Monument, Canyon City, Long Creek, and Seneca.
  • Baker County CWPP Update
    $246,000 to complete a CWPP update and revision to our current and long-standing Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
  • Wheeler County of Emergency Management, Wheeler County fire protection roadway shoulder clearing
    $992,815 to treat 250 miles of Wheeler County roadside right-of way fuels reduction. This will be accomplished with the purchase and use of a new tractor with 22' boom, mower head attachment, and 50" Mulching Head attachment. This will treat 50 miles per year over the five-year period, for a total of 250 miles, or 1210 acres, total over the five-year period.
  • Illinois Valley Soil & Water Conservation District, Community Action for Wildfire Resiliency Project
    $113,744 to treat areas within highly vulnerable Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas, proximate to federally managed forest lands. The proposed treatment areas range in size from 0.25 to 40 acres and are characterized by a mixture of conifer and hardwood tree species at higher elevations, and intermixed oak/pine woodlands and ceanothus brush fields at lower elevations. The proposed treatments are intended to reduce the likelihood of a wildfire originating from, or traversing, forest lands that would impact or otherwise cause loss and damage to private residences, businesses, and community assets.
  • Rocky Point Fire and EMS, Rocky Point Urban Interface Community Wildfire Protection Plan
    $224,717 to update and implement the Community Wildfire Protection Plan, reduce the risk of wildland fire urban interface, and to reduce fuels where homes and resorts are currently located.
  • City of Ashland, Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update
    $249,700 to rewrite of Ashland’s 2004 Community Wildfire Protection Plan to enable the city to better understand wildfire risk in the built environment, integrate WUI risk reduction projects developed in the past 19 years, wrestle with fire-adapted community issues and capacity limits, address vulnerable population knowledge gaps, and map out and prioritize community initiatives based on extensive public engagement. The CWPP will address the 2021 Oregon State Forest Plan priority issues of climate change, diversity/equity/inclusion/social justice, wildfire mitigation capacity and recovery, forest health, and water quality and quantity.
  • Curry County Soil and Water Conservation District, Gorse Fuels Treatment to Reduce Catastrophic Wildfire
    $1,338,078 to implement hazardous wildfire fuels reduction that has been prioritized in the Curry County Community Wildfire Protection Plan and the Curry County Multi-Jurisdictional Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan. This grant will be used to treat the area and reduce the wildfire risk to multiple communities from an invasive species.

City of Mission, Mission Volunteer Fire Department Community Wildfire Defense Planning Project
$62,289 to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan that focuses on the planning required to produce a document that addresses assisting the Fire District in mitigating the risk against wildfires. As part of the planning process, the VFD will also use grant funds to identify water sources that can greatly aid the CWPPs implementation and is part of naming all vulnerabilities and resources within the fire district.
 

  • Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, Central Area Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Program
    $4,705,367 to substantially expand fire education and awareness, create Community Fire Hazard Mitigation Methodologies, and remove hazardous fuel loading around structures in the Central Area.
  • North Tooele Fire District - Community Outreach
    $381,250 to form a team of firefighters who exhibit aspects of being Fire and Life Safety Educators, Data Collection Administrators, Fire Inspectors and Wildland/Urban Interface Specialists. These firefighters will be directly involved with homeowners to provide home assessments and mitigation recommendations. They will promote Firewise and FireSense Utah to move our District to that of a Fire Adapted Community. They will also work within the community to raise general wildfire awareness through public demonstrations, increase social media coverage, install Fire Danger signage, and create code improvements.

  • Clallam County CWPP Update
    $125,000 to create a new CWPP that will involve community stakeholder outreach, education, and input; climate change analysis to better predict wildfire risk; extensive hazard risk assessment to identify WUI areas and neighborhoods with vulnerable populations that may face wildfire risk.
  • Kittitas County Conservation District, Kittitas County Resilient Landscapes
    $10,000,000 to a fuels mitigation project that will reduce wildfire risk in Kittitas County while creating more resilient communities and forests in the project area. 92% of requested funds are for on-the-ground fuels work. Projects are driven by the planning efforts of the Washington Department of Natural Resources, the Kittitas Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and the planning efforts of the County Fire Chiefs, the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Cle Elum Ranger District, the SE Region of Washington Department of Natural Resources, and the Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition.
  • Mt. Adams Resource Stewards, West Klickitat County Wildfire Defense Project
    $5,518,518 to construct of approximately 35 miles (1744 acres) of strategic fuel breaks around 7 high-risk rural communities, paired with a robust outreach and assistance program that will directly serve community members over 5 years.
  • Spokane County Fire District #4 CWPP Implementation
    $1,417,500 carry out the mitigation measures present in the Spokane County Wildfire Preparedness Plan conducted in January 2014. Spokane County Fire District #4 intends to establish two new Firewise communities during the grant timeline, to complete hazardous fuel reduction and mitigation programs. The total number of acres planned to be treated over the course of five years is 500 acres along with other measures listed in the Spokane County CWPP over the next five years.
  • Washington State Department of Natural Resources, White Salmon Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project
    $436,500 to conduct Hazardous Fuels Reduction that will help to mitigate wildfire risk by creating an approximate 100-200foot wide, 100-acre fuel break around the entire community and allowing for some community hazardous fuels reduction in areas mentioned in the 2018 Klickitat County Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
  • Flowery Trail Community Association, Hazardous Fuel Mitigation
    $65,126 creating a 200ft wide shaded fuel break which would completely surround the 150 acres of the development. This area would have yearly maintenance and the rest of the acreage would receive a planting of Western Larch and Ponderosa Pine seedlings, returning wildland fire friendly trees to the area. By taking these actions, which include fuel mitigation, increasing the shaded fuel breaks, requiring home hardiness, and compliance with proper landscaping following the Firewise USA guidelines, the community would be well prepared to survive a wildland fire.
  • Lincoln County Conservation District, Lincoln County CWPP Update
    $66,446 the update will build upon the previous Community Wildfire Protection Plan to identify high-risk areas and recommend specific projects that may help prevent wildland fires from occurring altogether or, at least, lessen their impact on residents and property in Lincoln County, WA.
  • Pacific County Emergency Management, Pacific County CWPP Development
    $103,000 to create a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) developed in collaboration of Federal, State, and local partners and stakeholders in the "Urban Wildland - Interface" of Pacific County. The plan will clearly identify our mission to protect life, property, critical infrastructure, and the environment in the "Urban Wildland interface". This plan will focus on reducing wildfire risks in the landscape of the specific urban interface areas, incorporate the Firewise USA program, and implement large scale fire fuel reduction efforts.
  • Spokane Fire Department, City of Spokane Hazardous Fuels Reduction
    $1,503,000 for fuels reduction treatments on City-owned properties. The second priority will be any adjacent private ownership and or municipal-owned properties. Activities will result in 1,000 acres being thinned, pruned, and disposed of.
  • Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, Hazardous Fuels Reduction
    $2,700,875 to implement the proactive construction of strategic fuel breaks and wildfire risk mitigation work in Tract D, the southwestern corner of the Yakama Reservation. This project proposes to treat approximately 993 acres of hazardous fuels over a five-year period (2023-2028), utilizing a combination of hand crews, heavy equipment such as masticators, and/or prescribed fire utilizing capacity provided by Tribal Forestry.
  • Community Firewise Sky Meadows Ranch Hazardous Fuels
    $750,000 create fire break lines within the community in order to attempt to minimize damage in the event of a large-scale fire, to remove fuels that will feed a fire, remove trees that encroach into easement roads, and to educate the community on fire wising programs and techniques treating 250 acres over a four-year period.
  • Spokane City Fire Department - Request 1
    $1,503,000 fund Cost Share Fuels reduction treatments of high-priority City properties. These properties are scattered throughout the City of Spokane in 5 to 500-acre parcels. Fuel types within the area consist of overstocked conifer forests of Ponderosa Pines, Douglas fir, and brush depending on slope, shade, and viable water sources. The end result will be the treatment of a minimum acreage of 1,000 acres, divided by five years. Approximately 200 acres will be treated per year.
  • Washington Department of Natural Resources, DNR SE - Request 1
    $420,000 to mitigate wildfire risk for the City of Cle Elum by reducing fuel loadings and canopy bulk densities across 180 acres on private lands throughout the western edge of the City of Cle Elum, WA.
  • Chelan County Natural Resource Department, Stemilt-Squilchuck Forest Resilience Project
    $328,036 to plan and implement 400 acres of mechanical thinning in high priority units across ownerships in the planning area from 2023-2025. Implementing thinning/fuels reduction projects across the Stemilt-Squilchuck landscape that serve to increase the footprint of ongoing work in the area and make a meaningful impact on stand structure.

  • Town of Conover, FY 2022 Wheeled Excavator
    $470,000 to mitigate the risk of future wildfires, the Town of Conover will create fuel breaks between forested areas and residential areas. Many of the high danger areas result from highly flammable trees that are left behind after harvesting operations, or from trees and branches that have fallen because of a storm.
  • Town of Washington, Fuel Reduction
    $ 246,939 to augment, enhance, and expand the Town of Washington Community Wildfire Protection Plan to protect lives, property, and resources from wildfire and provide for public safety. This will be accomplished through improving wildfire planning efforts and increasing the safety of the public and emergency responders' vegetation management on town rights-of-way and reduce hazardous fuels to mitigate fire danger by supporting the town’s brush site through annual chipping.

Crooked Creek Community Fuels Mitigation Project
$234,825 to expand and connect other area treatments on a landscape level in a location that has not been financially possible in the past. This will be accomplished by contracting activities that will reduce fuel loads and restore forest health to provide wildfire resilience to all lands and properties.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/fire/grants/funded-proposals