Opportunity Information: Apply for L25AS00301
The FY25 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance funding opportunity is a bureau-wide cooperative agreement program focused on lowering the risk and impacts of wildland fire by investing in vegetation and fuels management, along with practical community-facing wildfire assistance. The core idea is to reduce the intensity and severity of wildfires (or lessen their negative effects) through work that is both preventative and strategic, while also supporting healthier ecosystems and helping communities become more fire adapted over time. This program is positioned as a cost-effective public benefit because it aims to reduce catastrophic fire outcomes before they happen, rather than relying solely on suppression and recovery after the fact.
Projects funded under this opportunity can span several connected areas: building local capacity through assessment and planning, supporting community and homeowner mitigation efforts, and carrying out fuels management treatments and related activities. In practice, this can include training and monitoring, implementing treatments, or maintaining previous treatments on BLM-managed federal lands. It can also include work on adjacent non-federal lands when that work clearly benefits federal resources, such as reducing risk along boundaries where fire can move between jurisdictions. The program also supports wildfire prevention activities intended to mitigate risks to nearby communities and the things those communities value, which can include critical infrastructure, homes, watersheds, and other local assets.
A major emphasis of the opportunity is partnership. BLM is explicitly looking to collaborate with partner organizations to coordinate hazardous fuel reduction and expand public education on wildfire prevention. The goal is to reduce the overall intensity, severity, risk, and community impacts of large, damaging fires, especially in wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas where development meets flammable vegetation and fire risk is often highest. Alongside risk reduction, BLM also frames these projects as contributors to local jobs and broader conservation and restoration outcomes, since fuels work frequently requires planning, field implementation, and follow-up maintenance and monitoring.
This funding opportunity is offered as a discretionary program under a cooperative agreement instrument, meaning BLM expects to have substantial involvement during the period of performance (for example, coordination on project design, priorities, technical methods, or reporting). The funding activity area is natural resources, and the listed CFDA (assistance listing) number is 15.228. The opportunity number is L25AS00301, and the application closing date is July 23, 2025. The award ceiling is $1,000,000 per award. The notice indicates expected awards but does not provide a specific number in the provided text.
Eligibility is limited to non-federal entities that commonly partner with land management agencies. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city/township governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments; tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments); and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education in those nonprofit categories). Individuals and for-profit organizations are explicitly ineligible under this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), which is an important restriction for anyone considering submitting.
There are also two notable policy boundaries in the description. First, this NOFO does not support projects that involve hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. The notice explains that the Public Lands Corps Act is the only authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that framework, and as a result, Youth Conservation Corps proposals tied to Public Lands Corps-style placements must instead be pursued under a separate funding path: NOFO 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands. Second, the notice highlights Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs) and how they fit. CESUs are partnerships designed to support research, studies, assessments, monitoring, technical assistance, and education. If a CESU partner receives a cooperative agreement under a formally negotiated CESU master agreement consistent with CESU purposes, indirect costs are capped at no more than 17.5 percent of the applicable indirect cost base recognized in the partner's federally approved negotiated indirect cost rate agreement (NICRA). Applicants are advised to state clearly whether their proposal advances CESU purposes and, if so, which CESU network should be considered as the host.
Overall, this opportunity is aimed at organizations that can plan, coordinate, and implement on-the-ground hazardous fuels reduction and related wildfire prevention and preparedness activities, especially where those efforts protect communities and federal resources at the same time. It prioritizes practical, partnership-driven work that lowers wildfire risk in high-priority landscapes like the WUI, while also supporting ecological resilience and the longer-term goal of fire-adapted communities.Apply for L25AS00301
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 Bureau of Land Management Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance- Bureau wide" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.228.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-06-23.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-23. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.
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