Assistance program
Fire Management Assistance Grant
$1.3 Billion committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Department of
- Assistance
- Project Grants;Provision of Specialized Services
- CFDA number
- 97.046
- What it does
- The Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) Program is authorized by the Stafford Act. The objective and purpose of the FMAG Program is to provide supplemental assistance to State, Tribal, and local governmental entities for the mitigation, management, and control of any fire on public or private forest land or grassland that threatens such destruction as would constitute a major disaster. The funds are primarily used for fire suppression services (response) but also for essential assistance (emergency protective measures) as described in Section 403 (42 U.S.C. 5170b) of the Stafford Act. This includes but is not limited to evacuation, sheltering, police barricading, equipment and supplies, and other costs related to fire suppression operations and administration in support of these operations. Performance Measures: • Number of SLTT partners who receive FMAG assistance • Number of dollars SLTT partners receive to mitigate, manage, and control FMAG-Declared fires • Number of field camps established • Number of tools repaired or replaced • Number of mobilization activities conducted • Number of dollars used to offset administrative costs
- Who benefits
- Eligible Applicants are entities legally responsible for the firefighting activities for which reimbursement is being requested. The following Applicants are eligible to apply through Recipients: • State agencies; • Local governments; and • Tribal governments. Ineligible Applicants are governmental entities that do not have legal responsibility for the firefighting activities, privately owned entities, and volunteer firefighting organizations. However, ineligible Applicants may receive payment through a compact, mutual aid agreement, or contract with an eligible Applicant for eligible costs associated with the declared fire or fire complex.
- Who applies
- The state (includes District of Columbia, U.S. territories and possessions, and state governments) and Indian tribal governments are eligible for fire management assistance grants. The state or Indian tribal government may be the recipient. The recipient is the government entity that receives the award and is accountable for the use of funds provided. A state, local, or Indian tribal government may apply as a subrecipient under the recipient’s award.
- Program site
- http://fema.dhs.gov ↗
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.
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Administering agencies
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments