Work under this agreement will craft effective mitigation and risk reduction strategies for vulnerable wildlandurban interface communities

Josephine County received a Project Grant award of $249,779.48 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The award, issued September 4, 2025, with a completion date of June 30, 2029, funds the development of effective mitigation and risk reduction strategies for vulnerable wildland-urban interface communities in Oregon. The project will produce comprehensive wildfire defense planning and implementation deliverables designed to reduce wildfire risk in at-risk areas.

The funded work encompasses the crafting of community wildfire protection strategies and post-fire recovery planning to enhance community resilience against wildfire threats. Activities under this award will likely include hazardous fuel reduction planning, defensible space creation initiatives, community education and outreach efforts, and landscape restoration projects on non-federal lands. These deliverables align with the CWDG program's focus on protecting at-risk communities through both strategic planning and on-the-ground mitigation implementation, with particular emphasis on underserved populations in high wildfire hazard zones.

Project also includes post fire recovery planning from wildfires