USFS Community Wildfire Defense Grant Open for Applications

The Biden Administration has announced a five-year, $1 billion program through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to provide grants to at-risk communities for planning and mitigation wildfire events. The Community Wildfire Defense Grant program will fund individual grants up to $250,000 to create and update community wildfire protection plans or conduct outreach and education, and up to $10 million for associated infrastructure and resilience projects. Applications are being accepted through October 7, 2022 and instructions for interested local governments in the western U.S. can be downloaded here. More information is available on the USDA Forest Service (USFS) website here.