Assistance program
BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities
$119.8 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Use of Property, Facilities, and Equipment;Dissemination of Technical Information;Training
- CFDA number
- 15.228
- What it does
- Wildland Fire Fuels Management and Community Assistance Program activities represent strategic investments in managing vegetation through active management to reduce the intensity, severity or negative effects of wildfire. Provides cost-effective benefits to the American people, helps restore and maintain healthy ecosystems, and supports communities in their efforts to become fire-adapted. Supported activities include: programs that develop local capability including assessment and planning, community and homeowner mitigation and education activities, and community and homeowner education and implementation; planning and implementing fuels management activities, including the training, monitoring or maintenance associated with such fuels management activities, on federal land, or on adjacent nonfederal land for activities that benefit resources on federal land; and assisting with the prevention of wildfires to reduce the risk and impact to communities and their values. This program continues to advance the Department of the Interior’s priorities to create a conservation stewardship legacy while generating revenue and utilizing our natural resources. In addition, supports BLM’s continued commitment to develop and sustain partnerships and reduce and streamline its processes and procedures to serve its customers and the public better and faster across all its program areas. These reforms allow the Bureau to realign time and resources to completing important on–the-ground work.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- Not Applicable
- Authorized by
- Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016, Public Law 114-53, Division E, Title I, Department-wide Programs, Wildland Fire Management; This program was first implemented in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriat…
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$32.2M
27%
Grants
$87.5M
73%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments