Federal grant programs / Department of Agriculture

Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention (10.694)

Also known as SWERI

• Awarded, FY 2021 to 2025$45.9 million
• Grant awards17
• Typical award$2.0 million
• Awarded in FY 2025$3.0 million
• Size rank1,065 of 1,823
• Type of assistanceDirect payments for specified use

Key findings

• Annual funding fell from $6.0 million in fiscal 2021 to $3.0 million in fiscal 2025.
• It is the 1065th largest of 1,823 federal grant programs by five-year awards.
• Awards went to recipients in 3 states and territories.

What the program funds

(1) To enhance the capacity to develop, transfer, apply, monitor, and regularly update practical science-based forest restoration treatments that will reduce the risk of severe wildfires, and improve the health of dry forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior West; (2) to synthesize and adapt scientific findings from conventional research programs to the implementation of forest and woodland restoration on a landscape scale; (3) to facilitate the transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge required to understand the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of wildfire on ecosystems and landscapes; (4) to require the Institutes established under this Act to collaborate with Federal agencies to use ecological restoration and wildfire treatments; (5) to assist land managers in restoration-based applications and new management technologies; (6) to provide technical assistance to collaborative efforts by affected entities; and (7) to assist Federal and non-Federal land managers in providing information to the public on the role of fire and fire management.

From the federal Assistance Listing. Read the full listing on SAM.gov.

Open opportunities

No opportunity under this program is open or forecast on Grants.gov right now. Programs often post once a year, so the funding history below shows what to expect.

Rules from the program listing

Who can apply

Specific states as identified in the funding.

What the money can and cannot pay for

Proceeds are for ecological restoration treatments to reverse declining forest health and reduce the risk of severe wildfires across the forest landscape; to design, implement, monitor, and regularly revise representative wildfire treatments based on the use of adaptive ecosystem management. No funds made available under this Act shall be used to pay costs of constructing any facilities.;

Matching requirements

This program has no statutory formula. Matching requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing. MOE requirements are not applicable to this assistance listing.

Deadlines

Deadlines do not apply

Award range and average, in the agency's words

Range of assistance is $150,000 - $1,500,000

Examples of funded projects

Fiscal Year2025: The SWERI have heard from policymakers, land management agencies, and the research community that there is a need to compile and display existing information on fuel treatment projects and wildfires at the national level, to coordinate and facilitate the use of these data for assessing, planning, and monitoring fuel treatment interactions with wildfires across boundaries, and to analyze and report on fuel treatment effects. As a result, SWERI was identified in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, to undertake a national wildfire and treatment effectiveness mapping and assessment project. The resulting effort is the ReSHAPE Project.

Quoted from the program's federal Assistance Listing. The notice of funding opportunity is the official source for each competition's rules.

Who usually wins

Almost all of the money went to colleges and universities.

By state

Each state below has its own page for this program, with its recipients and yearly totals.

Award amounts are federal obligations reported to USAspending.gov for fiscal 2021 to 2025; see how our data works.