Community Wildfire Defense Grants
Dept. of Agriculture – Forest Service – State and Private Forestry
Wildfire-Specific Spending: Yes
Wildfire Activities Funded: “Mitigation”
Authorization:
P.L. 117-58
1,000
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS (IN MIL)
FY2017 – FY2026
Description
The Community Wildfire Defense Grants program, established in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), provides grants to at-risk communities to develop or revise a community wildfire protection plan and to carry out projects described in a community wildfire protection plan that is not more than 10 years old, with priority given to areas with high or very high wildfire hazard potential, low-income communities, and a communities impacted by a severe disaster.Appropriations
| Regular | Supplemental | IIJA | IRA | |
| FY2015 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2016 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2017 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2018 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2019 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2020 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2021 | — | — | — | — |
| FY2022 | — | — | 200,000,000 | — |
| FY2023 | — | — | 200,000,000 | |
| FY2024 | — | — | 200,000,000 | |
| FY2025 | — | — | 200,000,000 | |
| FY2026 | — | 200,000,000 |
Last Updated: March 20, 2026
Received Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Funding: Yes – New
Received Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Funding: No
Additional TCS Resources
Wildfire Risk Reduction: Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program For At-Risk Communities
*In FY2021, the U.S. Forest Service implemented a new budget line item for salaries and expenses across all Forest Service programs – costs that had previously been incorporated into each program’s budget line item. This re-structuring makes it difficult to compare program spending before and after FY2021.