The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is accepting applications for the Community Wildfire Defense Grant program to assist at-risk communities, including Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations, with planning for and mitigating wildfire risks. Individual grants of up to $250,000 can be used to develop and update community wildfire protection plans, while individual grants of up to $10 million can be used for wildfire resilience projects that implement community wildfire protection plans. The program prioritizes communities that:
- Are in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential,
- Are low income or,
- Have been impacted by a severe disaster within the previous 10 years which increased wildfire risk and/or hazard.
Funds can be used to:
- Develop and revise Community Wildfire Protection Plans
- Implement projects described in a Community Wildfire Protection Plan that are less than ten years old.
Learn more on the Community Wildfire Defense Grants webpage.
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