Butte County Fire Safe Council

Butte County Fire Safe Council, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Paradise, California, is a federal grant recipient delivering landscape fuel reduction, wildfire mitigation, and community fire-adaptation programming to the Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management across Northern California. The organization operates as a prime grantee in 91% of its recent award footprint, with one sub-award to California Fire Safe Council, Inc.

Butte County Fire Safe Council's capability portfolio centers on wildland-urban interface fire hazard reduction through on-the-ground fuel treatment and community resilience building. Representative work includes a $2.745 million Project Grant from the USDA Forest Service (CFDA 10.720) under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program, awarded December 30, 2024, to develop and update Community Wildfire Protection Plans and implement mitigation projects across at-risk California communities through July 30, 2029. The organization also holds two Cooperative Agreements under the Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority (CFDA 10.693), each awarded August 9, 2024 by the USDA Forest Service Region 5–Pacific Southwest Region: one for $661,254 supporting the Berry Creek and Feather Falls fire hazard reduction project and one for $248,498 funding wildland-urban interface fire hazard reduction in the Butte Creek Magalia area, both completing December 1, 2026. Most recently, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228) on January 30, 2026, to perform landscape fuel load reduction across 323.9 acres in Butte County targeting 70 percent measurable fuel load reduction, with fire adaptation and community outreach reaching an estimated 500 residents through December 30, 2029. Work scope across these awards includes hand piling, mastication, vegetation thinning, herbicide application, community wildfire protection planning, defensible space establishment, and fire preparedness outreach to wildland-urban interface communities in post-fire recovery areas.

Customer concentration is highly concentrated. Two agencies—the USDA Forest Service Region 5–Pacific Southwest Region and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management California Region—account for 100% of recent awards by both count (10 of 11 awards) and combined dollars obligated ($6.3 million). The Forest Service dominates with eight awards totaling the majority of obligated value, primarily under CFDA 10.693 watershed restoration and community wildfire defense programs. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $6.3 million with a relatively flat activity profile (one award per year in 2021, 2025, and 2026; three awards in 2023 and 2024). The organization's sub-award activity is minimal; its single sub-award sits under California Fire Safe Council, Inc. as the prime grantee on a fuels reduction and forest health project in Butte County.