Cooperative Agreement L08AC13633

The Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, Fire, & State Lands was awarded a $242,138 Project Grant under the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grant program (CFDA 10.720). The grant funding will support the development and implementation of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Salt Lake City, Utah. Key activities include conducting community wildfire risk assessments, developing...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674) to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to complete and maintain a community fuel break project. The project aims to implement the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy and assist communities at risk from catastrophic wildfires in Alaska. The award period is from...

Wildfire Adapted Partnership will implement Archuleta County, Colorado's Community Wildfire Protection Plan from 2023 through 2028 under a $1.48 million project grant from the USDA Forest Service. Funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720), the project involves assessing wildfire risks and developing mitigation strategies to protect life, property, and natural resources from wildfire damage. As a non-profit organization...

The University of California, Davis will use a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop wildland urban interface (WUI) fire simulation models and evacuation strategies. The research will leverage data from California's 2018 Camp Fire to simulate fire hardening and evacuation scenarios for different community archetypes through agent-based modeling, fire dynamics modeling, and evacuation modeling within a semantic framework. This is...

Federal Grant Award Summary The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674), awarded Clackamas County Fire District NO. 1 a $200,000 project grant effective September 15, 2025, with completion scheduled for September 15, 2028. The award supports prescribed fire management and fuels reduction activities across national wildlife refuges in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho operated by...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program provides $453,120 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop and implement a standardized tiered fire shelter system for Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities. The research aims to create a tiered system of fire shelters with integrated evacuation and shelter-in-place strategies, incorporating hazard...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region awarded a $487,594 Cooperative Agreement under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) to the University of California, Berkeley to optimize wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire risk assessment. The project aims to improve and refine methods for WUI fire risk assessment and provide support in the simulation of wildland and WUI fire spread. As a sub-award, the University of Maryland, College Park will assist in...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $212,043 Community Wildfire Defense Grant to the Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF) under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's Community Wildfire Defense Grant program (CFDA 10.720). The funding will support NDF in updating and modernizing the Storey County Community Wildfire Protection Plan over the period of August 2024 to July 2029. This project aims to help the community mitigate wildfire risks through comprehensive planning,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $365,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.228: Wildland Fire Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities) to the Watershed Research and Training Center on September 21, 2025, for a five-year initiative addressing Utah's wildfire risk through the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC NET). In partnership with Utah State University as a subrecipient, the project will strengthen...

The Waynesville Rural Fire Protection District received a $250,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720) on July 22, 2025, with a completion date of November 15, 2029. The award funds the development of a comprehensive Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for Pulaski County, Missouri. The primary deliverable is a county-level plan that evaluates wildfire...