Several grant opportunities are available for private landowners to help implement prescribed burning to reduce hazardous fuel loads and protect communities across the state.
Prescribed burning is a land management tool used to reduce potential fuel for wildfires and help promote ecosystem restoration. For most prescribed fire grants, recipients will be reimbursed at a standard rate per acre burned. All require the use of a certified and insured prescribed burn vendor.
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Provides funding for prescribed fire to reduce hazardous fuels in and around communities.
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Provides assistance to reduce the hazard of high-risk fuels on private lands through prescribed burning.
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Provides assistance to reduce the hazard of high-risk fuels on private lands and non-federal public lands through prescribed burning.
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Provides financial and technical assistance for establishing, enhancing, and managing longleaf pine.
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Provides financial support to landowners utilizing prescribed fire for ecological improvements within the Neches River and Cypress Basin watersheds while also protecting nearby high-risk communities.
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To protect high‑risk communities and nearby forest resources by reducing the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires on both private and public lands through the use of prescribed fire.
