Amador county fire resiliency project

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded Amador Fire Safe Council a $999,233 cooperative agreement under the Wildland Fire Fuels Management and Community Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228), effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2029. This award funds hazardous fuels reduction and community wildfire mitigation activities in Pine Grove, California, designed to reduce the risk and impact of catastrophic wildfires on local communities. The project will support concrete fire resiliency measures including vegetation management, hazardous fuels reduction, community wildfire education and outreach, home defensible space assessments, and development of fire-adapted landscapes across the wildland-urban interface zone.

Through this cooperative agreement, Amador Fire Safe Council will coordinate with the BLM to implement landscape-scale fuels management treatments, advance fire prevention awareness among landowners and public land users, and strengthen community planning and preparedness capabilities. The four-year project timeline allows for sustained implementation of treatments and results, contributing to the broader program objective of creating fire-resilient communities and reducing wildfire severity across federal and adjacent non-federal lands.