Community Protection and Wildfire Resilience Act

This bill would create a FEMA grant program, run through the U.S. Fire Administrator with the Forest Service, that pays states, tribes, local governments, and fire departments to write community wildfire protection plans (up to $250,000) or carry out projects in those plans (up to $10,000,000). Priority would go to communities in high wildfire-risk areas, and project grants would generally require a 25 percent non-federal cost share, which FEMA could waive or reduce. The bill authorizes $1 billion per year for fiscal years 2025 through 2029. It also requires federal reports on wildfire programs, insurance-related certification, and firefighter radio communications, a map of at-risk communities updated every 5 years, and allows an existing wildfire grant program to fund making buildings resistant to flames and embers.

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Sponsors

• Alex Padilla Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors