Donor Name: Forest Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/07/2022
Grant Size: $10,000,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The CWDG helps communities in the wildland urban interface (WUI) implement the three goals of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy):
- Restore and Maintain Landscapes: Landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances, in accordance with management objectives.
- Create Fire Adapted Communities: Human populations and infrastructure can withstand a wildfire without loss of life and property.
- Improve Wildfire Response: All jurisdictions participate in making and implementing safe, effective, efficient risk based wildfire management decisions.
Project Objectives
- A project proposal must advance objectives and priorities identified in a community wildfire protection plan that is not more than 10 years old.
- A project proposal must be designed to achieve one or more of the following objectives:
- Assist a community with planning to address management of wildfire risk.
- Assist a community with mitigation measures or actions to reduce wildfire risk.
Projects to be Given Priority
- Applicants will have the responsibility to indicate on the application if they meet any or all of the three priorities.
- The applicant will also need to provide supporting documentation or a link to such documentation for each priority that is checked. Priority will be given to project proposals that:
- Are located in an area identified as having a high or very high wildfire hazard potential;
- Benefit a low-income community; or
- Are located in a community impacted by a severe disaster within the previous 10 years.
Funding Information
- There is no minimum Federal funding limit for projects under CWDG.
- The maximum amount of Federal funding awarded to any one community or Tribe via this competitive process is:
- $250,000 for the creation or updating of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and
- $10 million for a project described within a Community Wildfire Protection Plan less than 10 years old.
- For planning purposes, the Federal funding allocated through the CWDG competitive process is expected to be approximately $160 million annually for the next five years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.