Community and Private Land Fire Assistance Program (CPFLA)
Purpose:
The community and Private Land Fire Assistance program is aimed at promoting firefighting efficiency at all levels (on Federal and non-Federal lands) and at protecting communities from wildfire threats. It is intended to improve landscape-level protection from catastrophic wildfires by expanding outreach and education programs directed at homeowners and communities and establishing defensible space on private land in the wildland-urban interface.
Administering Agency:
USDA Forest Service in partnership with State Foresters and other State officials.
Forest Landowner Eligibility:
The USDA Forest Service is currently developing guidelines for this program.
Assistance Offered:
With owner consent, the Secretary, in consultation with the State forester or equivalent State official, may undertake on non-Federal lands
- Fuel hazard mitigation and prevention;
- Invasive species management;
- Multiresource wildfire planning;
- community protection planning;
- community and landowner education enterprises including the program known as FIREWISE;
- market development and expansion;
- Improved wood utilization; and
- Special restoration projects
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