FY25 State Fire Capacity Wildfire Hazard Mitigation
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-FS-FY25-R8-WILDFIRE-MITIGATION
- Agency
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Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- $25,000 to $300,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Categories
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- Disaster Prevention and Relief
- Natural Resources
- Eligible applicants
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- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- City/Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- State Governments
- Tribal Organizations (Not Federally Recognized)
- County Governments
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is offering the FY25 State Fire Capacity Wildfire Hazard Mitigation grant opportunity, which aims to support projects that restore and maintain resilient landscapes and create fire-adapted communities. Eligible applicants include state forestry agencies, tribes, nonprofits, academic institutions, and local governments. Proposed activities should focus on reducing hazardous fuels in the Wildland Urban Interface, developing and implementing Community Wildfire Protection Plans, and providing prevention and mitigation education. Applications will be evaluated based on criteria such as project description, strategic investment, collaboration, and assistance to underserved communities. The application period opens on November 18, 2024 and closes on January 22, 2025.
Grant awards range from $25,000 to $300,000, with a 1:1 cost-share match requirement. The grants are authorized under the USDA Forest Service's State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698), which supports wildfire prevention, control, and management across non-federal forest and rural lands. Funded projects must report annual accomplishments to the USFS.
Synopsis
All non-State Forestry Agency applications (except Tribes) must have a letter of support from the State Forestry Agency when submitting in Grants.gov.
The USDA Forest Service State Fire Capacity (SFC) Wildfire Hazard Mitigation priorities are consistent with the goals of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (https://forestsandrangelands.gov/strategy/thestrategy.shtml), specifically as listed below.
1. Restore and Maintain Landscapes: Landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances, in accordance with management objectives.
2. Create Fire Adapted Communities: Human populations and infrastructure can withstand a wildfire without loss of life or property.
Additionally, SFC priorities reflect the national USFS priorities of improving the condition of forests, and grasslands, promoting shared stewardship by increasing partnerships and volunteerism, and by being good neighbors and providing excellent customer service.
SFC Wildfire Hazard Mitigation application activities should clearly focus on identifying and creating fire adapted communities by:
• Reducing hazardous fuels in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
• Developing, and implementing Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
• Providing prevention and mitigation education, and/or
• By achieving Fire Adapted Community and Firewise programming and other community hazard mitigation activities.
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