Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG)
Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) supports state, local, and tribal governments with firefighting costs to mitigate, manage, and control forest or grassland fires threatening a major disaster.
Funder: New Mexico Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Management
Due Dates: Incident-driven (state requests assistance when a threat of major disaster exists)
Funding Amounts: 75% federal cost share; state pays the remaining 25% of actual costs
Summary: Supports mitigation, management, and control of forest or grassland fires threatening destruction severe enough to constitute a major disaster.
Key Information: Available to state, local, and tribal governments; Tribal Nations cannot request an FMAG declaration directly.
Description
The Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) is a FEMA program presented in New Mexico by the Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Management. It supports state, local, and tribal governments in mitigating, managing, and controlling fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands when the threatened destruction would constitute a major disaster. FEMA Regional Administrators have authority to issue FMAG declarations.
FMAG is separate from FEMA’s Public Assistance Program and is governed by Title 44 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 204, and FEMA’s program guidance. Assistance focuses on eligible firefighting costs. The declaration process is expedited, allowing FEMA to decide on a state’s request within hours while the threat exists.
