Community Wildfire Defense Grant 2022 West

APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE!

For Western States and Pacific Islands: Information on how to apply may be found in the attached Notice of Funding Opportunity, but actual applications will be submitted through the portal at cwdg.forestrygrants.org

The purpose of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant is to assist at-risk local communities and Indian Tribes with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire.   

The Act prioritizes at-risk communities in an area identified as having high or very high wildfire hazard potential, are low-income, and/or have been impacted by a severe disaster. More details on these three priorities can be found in the Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs).  

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. 

This program is authorized in Public Law 117-58, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). 

There are two primary project types for which the grant provides funding:  

• The development and revision of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) 
• The implementation of projects described in a CWPP that is less than ten years old 

Government

• Special district governments
• County governments
• State governments
• Federally recognized Native American tribal governments
• City or township governments

Nonprofit

• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)
• Other Native American tribal organizations
• Nonprofits non-higher education without 501(c)(3)

Education

• Public and state institutions of higher education