Fire Management Assistance Grant Program
Fire Management Assistance Grant Program supports governments with wildfire management, firefighting, evacuations, and sheltering to address fires threatening destruction on the scale of a major disaster.
Funder: Florida Division of Emergency Management
Due Dates: Event-driven (declaration request while the fire is burning out of control and threatens a major disaster)
Funding Amounts: 75% federal reimbursement of eligible actual costs; 25% non-federal share
Summary: Supports governments with wildfire mitigation, management, control, and emergency protective measures for fires threatening a major disaster.
Key Information: A state fire management assistance declaration and applicable fire cost thresholds are required for an award.
Description
The Fire Management Assistance Grant Program is a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster assistance program administered in Florida through the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). It supports states, local governments, and tribal governments responding to fires on publicly or privately owned forests and grasslands that threaten destruction severe enough to constitute a major disaster.
Assistance reimburses actual eligible costs associated with declared wildfires, including firefighting activities and non-firefighting emergency protective measures such as evacuations and sheltering. Declaration decisions consider threats to lives, improved property, critical infrastructure, and critical watershed areas, alongside available firefighting resources, high fire danger conditions, and potential major economic impacts.
