Project Grant 25DG11132543065

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 International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) was awarded a $504,239 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service to provide wildland urban interface training through September 2024. The grant was awarded under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698), which supports efforts to control rural and non-federal forest fires through prevention, prescribed burns, and fire suppression assistance. IAFF will use the funding to deliver...

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 Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. was awarded a $335,483.72 project grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program (CFDA 97.044). The goal of the AFG program is to enhance public and firefighter safety related to fire and fire hazards. Funding will support the Wilderness Volunteer Fire Department in delivering services to enhance safety from August 29, 2022 through August 28,...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service to support the Wisconsin Wildland Urban Interface Education and Community Support program. Funded through the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698), this award will allow the Wisconsin DNR to deliver wildfire risk reduction education and assistance to communities from June 2021 through June 2025. The Cooperative Fire...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $196,000 Cooperative Agreement to the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). This funding supports IAWF's efforts to enhance collaboration in wildland fire management over a three-year period from April 2024 to December 2026. Through this Cooperative Agreement, IAWF will organize major international conferences and facilitate...

This $390,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to improve the understanding and modeling of fire spread in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where forests and natural areas meet cities and towns. The key objectives are to: Develop a fundamental physical understanding of how fire interacts with individual structures and materials in urban environments at the local scale. Investigate how these localized interactions influence...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R9-Eastern Region awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance federal grant program (CFDA #10.698). The grant will support the Wisconsin Wildland Urban Interface Program Partner Support from June 2021 through June 2025. The State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program aims to assist in controlling rural fires and developing...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $4,850,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Partnership For Gulf Coast Land Conservation Inc. under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The project aims to implement the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy and assist communities in the Florida Panhandle at risk from catastrophic wildfires. Key activities include providing assistance to private landowners in Bay County for...

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...