Volunteer Fire Assistance Grant
Forecasted
Volunteer Fire Assistance Grant supports rural fire departments with protective equipment, radios, fire shelters, and firefighting supplies to improve wildfire readiness and response in rural communities.
Funder: Nevada Division of Forestry
Due Dates (Anticipated): July 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $20,000 per station and application, with $5,000 per priority area; 10% match under posted instructions
Summary: Supports rural fire departments’ wildfire readiness and response through equipment and supplies benefiting rural communities.
Key Information: Applying stations must support wildland fire suppression on all lands, including US Forest Service lands, and be NIMS compliant.
Description
The Nevada Division of Forestry’s Volunteer Fire Assistance (VFA) Program helps improve rural fire departments’ readiness for and response to wildfires, especially in the wildland-urban interface. Assistance must benefit rural populations. The program serves qualifying volunteer and area fire departments, fire training academies benefiting rural communities, and federally recognized Indian tribes whose volunteer fire departments are not administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The posted application prioritizes wildland personal protective equipment, fire shelters, P25-compliant radios, and other firefighting supplies. The Division of Forestry purchases and delivers items for participating departments. Paid fire departments are not excluded, but the program encourages targeting assistance to qualifying departments with at least 80% volunteer firefighters.
