Project Grant 09DG11031000011

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) Program (CFDA 15.805) provides $592,916 to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute to develop a framework for predicting the impacts of wildfires on flood frequency in the western United States. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a dynamic parameterization algorithm to represent wildfire-driven changes in hydrologic parameters,...

The Nevada Division of Forestry received a $2.45 million project grant award on December 15, 2025, through the Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). This award supports the development and implementation of wildfire mitigation and community resilience initiatives targeting the Upper Kingsbury community in Nevada—an area with minimal previous treatment on private...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded $215,000 under the Applied Science Grants program to develop an interactive web-based tool for efficient wildfire hydrologic simulation. Texas A&M University at Kingsville will partner with various state and federal entities to integrate remotely sensed data into a hydrologic model and equip watershed managers with a user-friendly workflow to quickly post-process variables associated with fire and drought. This will allow for...

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...

This federal Project Grant award for $498,606.00, awarded on September 17, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720), supports a "Landscape Scale Wildfire Prevention Planning for Southern Puerto Rico" project. The primary objective is to develop and implement comprehensive community wildfire protection plans for at-risk communities in southern Puerto Rico. The...

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 Upper Pine River Fire Protection District received a $4.36M Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Emergency Watershed Protection Program (CFDA 10.923), awarded December 18, 2025. The agreement funds emergency recovery measures to address flooding impacts from the Vallecito flooding event in La Plata County, Colorado. The deliverables include streambank protection and...

The Lefthand Watershed Oversight Group received a $299,196 Cooperative Watershed Management Program grant from the Bureau of Reclamation to expand existing watershed management planning within the St. Vrain watershed in Colorado. The group will develop a wildfire risk assessment, conduct a watershed-scale analysis, and identify, prioritize, and develop two to three key river restoration projects that complement ongoing forest mitigation efforts. The project aims to address the impacts of climate...

This federal Project Grant award of $3,255,073.00 from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Service Rocky Mountain Research Station supports the Nevada Division Of Forestry in implementing community wildfire protection plans and priority projects to reduce catastrophic wildfire risks. The funding was awarded on July 21, 2023 under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). Through this grant, the Nevada Division Of...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $596,222 Project Grant under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720) to the Nevada County Resource Conservation District. This grant, with a performance period from November 2023 to June 2026, will fund the development and updating of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for Nevada County, California, a community considered at-risk to wildfire damage and loss....