Wildfire Prevention Grant Program (Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District)

Wildfire Prevention Grant Program (Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District) is sponsored by Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District (RMC). This program provides funding for projects that protect and expand native forests/wildlands, support communities in increasing their resilience to wildfire and improving fire safety, promote sustainable land use, promote investment in wildlands management and workforce developme…

CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program – FY 2025-26 Wildfire Prevention Grant Awards - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Acre- Alliance for Conservation, Restoration, And Ecology (Formerly ICF) The El Dorado Safety Evacuation Route Project, Phase I El Dorado County * $ 879,025.

40 Wentworth Springs Road is located within El Dorado County, and extends from Georgetown, CA, east to Icehouse Road. This corridor has seen closure and evacuation of Phase 1 project area on at least 4 occasions since 2014: King, Trailhead, Mosquito and Crozier Fires. This project is 147 acres and 12 miles in length and includes critical research areas.

In total, there are a minimum of 140 habitable structures/parcels that are located within, or directly adjacent to the project area. Critical infrastructure is protected including transmission/distribution lines, and water conveyance systems. 25-WP-AEU-79150192 Lake Valley Fire Protection District South Lake Tahoe Community Mastication Project El Dorado County * $ 294,280.

00 The Lake Valley Fire Protection District seeks funding for the South Lake Tahoe Community Mastication Project to treat 213 acres of local government-owned land with both initial and maintenance fuels reduction. The area is a high wildfire risk due to drought, beetle kill, and overstocking. Funding will support the purchase of a 120 HP remote-controlled masticator for safe, efficient treatment on steep terrain.

Operational costs are covered by a California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) grant, but equipment is not. Multiple partner organizations support this critical investment in wildfire mitigation.

2- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-AEU-79222973 El Dorado County Fire Safe Council El Dorado County * $ 948,500.

00 The El Dorado County Fire Safe Council seeks funding from the CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants Program to support its Chipping Program on the western slope of El Dorado County, home to over 51,000 habitable structures. The program offers up to six hours of free chipping per visit using competitively selected contractors. It helps residents chip limbs and brush cleared from the 0“- 100 ft defensible space zone.

We anticipate serving 1,355 properties, treating 975 acres and eliminating at least 1,355 burn piles. Amador Resource Conservation District Amador County Chipping Project Amador County * $ 596,929. 54 The Amador County Chipping Project aims to reduce wildfire risk and improve air quality by supporting responsible disposal of vegetative debris.

Serving an estimated 1,557 habitable properties, the program helps residents process green waste after conducting fuels reduction on their properties. The ARCD will provide services such as roadside chipping, community chipping days, green waste events, and disposal bins.

The project will treat at least 677 acres by promoting vegetative fuels maintenance and reducing the likelihood of escaped burn piles across rural and residential landscapes. 25-WP-AEU-79495337 El Dorado County Fire Safe Council Placerville-Texas Hill Community Wildfire Protection Project El Dorado County * $ 948,640.

00 The Placerville-Texas Hill Community Wildfire Protection Project proposes to conduct hazardous fuel reduction on 360+ acres in and around the City of Placerville, the county seat of El Dorado County. Placerville is in the Sierra foothills where U.S. Route 50 crosses State Route 49 and State Hwy Route 193.

The project provides direct wildfire protection for 5,166 habitable structures in Placerville and Texas Hill Estates as well as government buildings, hospitals, schools, businesses, historic buildings, fairgrounds, and all other infrastructure housed in the city.

3- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description San Bernardino County Department of Public Works San Bernardino County Department of Public Works - Hazardous Fuel Reduction Along Public Roadways This project involves the removal of hazardous fuels within approximately 282 acres that could damage road infrastructure and critical evacuation routes within the county's mountain and foothill communities.

San Bernardino County has been adversely impacted by devastating fires including the Line Fire and Bridge Fire. Approximately 50% of fuel reduction efforts will occur in disadvantaged and low-income communities, with 37,471 structures affected. This project meets the CAL FIRE mission of increasing protection of people, structures, and communities.

25-WP-BDU-79251754 County of Inyo Inyo Community Fuel Reduction Vouchers Inyo County * $ 119,005. 60 The Inyo Community Fuel Reduction Vouchers Project will support 24 wildfire-threatened communities across Inyo County by funding landfill green waste disposal vouchers and roll-off dumpsters over three years.

All populated areas are within the Wildland-Urban Interface and located within or adjacent to High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The project is expected to treat approximately 346 acres of hazardous vegetation and benefit over 7,800 habitable structures by enabling community-led defensible space cleanup events. 25-WP-BDU-79476325 County of Inyo Fuel Reduction in Inyo County Parks and Campgrounds Inyo County * $ 202,976.

00 This project will reduce wildfire risk across 14 high-use parks and campgrounds in Inyo County by removing hazardous vegetation, creating defensible space, and improving emergency access. Using CAL FIRE hand crews, approximately 43 acres will be treated and 59 public structures protected. Work will occur during winter months to avoid impacts to nesting birds and will be completed by February 2029.

The project addresses extreme vegetation growth from recent wet years and supports long-term fire resilience in rural recreation areas. 4- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Mammoth Lakes Fire Protection District Mammoth Lakes Fire Green Waste Removal Program Mono County * $ 627,665.

02 Funding for grapple truck and 6,240 labor hours for two seasons of curbside green waste removal in the Mono County communities of Mammoth Lakes, June Lake, and Crowley Lake. Labor hours include ~8 weeks of pilot programs in additional Inyo/Mono communities to provide green waste removal on a trial basis for multiple days or weeks in a row expanding the coverage depending on which communities participate.

Labor hours include grapple truck operation, chipping, and working with priority residents to conduct ladder fuels removal. Total estimated treated acreage of 88 acres cumulatively. 25-WP-BDU-79499485 County of Mono Mono County Fuel Reduction Burner Mono County * $ 443,736.

96 Mono County Public Works will purchase an air curtain burner that will allow a rapidly expanding Firewise USA Program to grow further and increase their capacity to remove hazardous fuels.

Due to sharp community-driven growth and a recent, severe limit on landfill capacity after the City of Los Angeles mandated closure of the County's main landfill in 2023, Mono County faces a severe landfill capacity limitation; an air curtain burner is one solution. Mono County is a 3,030-square-mile, remote, rural county, located at the Eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada.

25-WP-BDU-79500219 Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council Critical Infrastructure Fuel Reduction 2025 This fuel abatement project will treat 350 acres in or adjacent to the San Bernardino Mountains, creating a crucial buffer against wildfire for critical infrastructure valued at over $100M. The primary justification is to preserve the operational backbone for the 100,000 people and 35,000 homes that depend on these assets.

A wildfire-induced failure of this infrastructure would trigger a cascade of crises, disrupting essential services and hindering emergency response. The key outcomes are Continuity of Services, Enhanced Public Safety, Community Resilience.

5- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-BEU-79211925 City of Monterey Monterey's Citywide Fuel Reduction Project Monterey County $ 950,000. 00 Monterey is highly susceptible to wildfire and CAL FIRE's newly updated FHSZ map reflects an increase in 2,751 FHSZ acres for the city.

The need for increasing wildfire prevention efforts has reached a critical stage. Following the city's adopted CWPP and Greenbelt Fuel Reduction Plan, the city proposes fuel reduction activities through clearing, chipping, and prescribed grazing, in 465 acres of city-owned greenbelts, parks and open spaces. The goal is to reduce high fuel loads, prevent catastrophic wildfires and protect approximately 1,000 homes in the Project area.

25-WP-BEU-79327559 Big Sur Fire Big Sur Strategic Community Fuel Break Maintenance Monterey County * $ 581,970. 89 The Big Sur Strategic Community Fuel Break Maintenance Project will increase Big Sur Fire's in-house capabilities to maintain roadside fuel breaks with a masticator. This project will continue to decrease catastrophic wildfire spread to communities identified as High and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones.

The project area includes critical infrastructure, serving over 2,060 residents and thousands of daily visitors. The project includes up to 25 feet of clearance on each side of 220 miles of private roads, allowing for safer emergency ingress/egress, totaling 1,850 acres of fuel breaks. 25-WP-BEU-79717867 Santa Lucia Conservancy Santa Lucia Hazardous Fuels Reduction Monterey County $ 622,215.

84 The project supports California's wildfire resilience goals by using prescribed goat and cattle grazing to reduce fine fuels and brush across 3,900 acres of grassland and oak savannah on the 20,000-acre Santa Lucia Preserve. Goats target brush and ladder fuels; cattle maintain fine fuels across broader areas.

The project strengthens existing fuel breaks and helps reduce fire spread to nearby High-Risk Communities: Carmel Highlands, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Carmel Valley.

6- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-BTU-79257933 Butte County Fire Safe Council Cohasset Park Fire Recovery Project Butte County $ 949,860.

42 The proposed project supports wildfire recovery and fuels reduction in the community of Cohasset, a rural Butte County community situated in a Very High Wildfire Hazard Severity Zone that was severely impacted by the 2024 Park Fire. The project will treat a total of 322. 1 acres: removing 300 hazardous trees across 207.

4 acres within the Park Fire footprint and conducting prescribed grazing across 114. 7 acres of mastication completed in 2024 within an unburned 717-acre area known as the green island. 25-WP-BTU-79258760 Butte County Fire Safe Council Forest Ranch Fuels Reduction and Community Protection Project Butte County $ 949,995.

59 The Forest Ranch Fuels Reduction and Community Protection Project will reduce wildfire risk on 380. 4 acres in the community of Forest Ranch, a very high-risk Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) community in Butte County with approximately 586 habitable structures. Situated in the 58,000-acre Butte Creek watershed - one of the last remaining unburned watersheds among the county's seven major ridges.

Forest Ranch has, to date, been spared the catastrophic wildfires that have claimed over 36,000 structures and more than 100 lives across Butte County in the last seven years. 25-WP-BTU-79289267 Yankee Hill Fire Safe Council Staging Areas Butte County * $ 949,999. 68 The Staging Areas project is in the Concow/Yankee Hill community of Butte County.

The community continues to recover from two wildfires; pre-fire we were approximately 3,500 population with approximately 1,700 structures and now it's estimated to be 1,480 population with 615 habitable structures. The project is listed in the Butte County CWPP and corelates with the Community Evacuation Plan. Our goal is to maintain and enhance the staging areas by treating 210 acres and assist (30) RAP homes, adding 39.

9 acres to total 249. 9 acres. Fire prevention education will be included.

7- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-BTU-79392521 Ca Department of Water Resources DWR Oroville Area Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project Butte County * $ 872,500. 00 This project aims to reduce wildfire risk across 378.

7 acres of DWR owned lands within two high priority areas in Butte County. Area #1 = Oroville Area which lies along City of Oroville communities, the Feather River, and the Diversion Pool in Oroville, CA. Within a 2-mile buffer of the Oroville Area project lies 10,837 habitable structures.

Area #2 = Bidwell Canyon SRA which borders the communities of East Oroville and Kelly Ridge to the west and Lake Oroville to the East. Within a 2-mile buffer of the Bidwell Canyon project lies 3,301 habitable structures. Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County Valencia Shaded Fuel Break Santa Cruz County $ 771,858.

46 The Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County, in partnership with Big Creek Lumber, proposes a 100. 62 - acre shaded fuel break across Bear Valley Ranch and Valencia Creek Forest - strategically located in a CAL FIRE CWPP priority area. The project will reduce hazardous fuels, improve emergency ingress/egress, and protect nearby communities.

Permits are secured, and implementation is shovel-ready, supporting regional wildfire resilience priorities. San Lorenzo Valley Water District SLVWD Fuel Break and Infrastructure Protection Santa Cruz County $ 902,323.

53 The SLVWD Fuel Break and Infrastructure Protection proposal consists of two projects which will together protect critical water infrastructure from wildfire, install a shaded fuel break, reduce hazardous fuels, and increase community wildfire resilience. The Fuel Break project will create a 2. 2-mile shaded fuel break and mitigate hazardous trees along 5.

6 miles of pipeline, while the Infrastructure Protection project will create defensible space around up to 32 critical water infrastructure sites. The projects will treat 76 acres and protect 8,000 habitable structures.

8- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description City of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation Department Santa Cruz Regional 911 Emergency Operations Center (Netcom) - Wildfire Risk Reduction Project Santa Cruz County $ 265,819. 20 Treatments will span 26.

6 acres in Santa Cruz, a community at-risk, and adjacent to other communities at-risk including but not limited to, Soquel and Twin Lakes. The project area is within 300 ft. of 240 habitable structures and designed to reduce fire risk near the Santa Cruz Regional 911 (Netcom) and Emergency Operations (EOC), serving 330,000 people, as well as essential City of Santa Cruz public services infrastructure.

Treatments will modify fuel connectivity, establish defensible space, and improve emergency ingress/egress, thereby protecting critical infrastructure and homes. San Mateo Resource Conservation District The Kings Mountain Strategic Fuel Reduction Project San Mateo County $ 446,450. 48 The Kings Mountain Strategic Fuel Reduction Project will improve wildfire resilience in San Mateo County's Very High and High Fire Hazard Severity Zones.

Centered around Kings Mountain Elementary School and nearby WUI neighborhoods, the project will treat ~120 acres near 600-800 homes and along 15+ miles of evacuation routes, including maintenance of fuel reduction along Highway 35 (Skyline Blvd). The project also protects the rural school campus, a valuable community asset, and includes education, chipping, and defensible space support.

Sierra Resource Conservation District Fresno County Front Country Fuel Break Network Kings County $ 774,170. 43 The Fresno County Front Country Fuel Break Network is an established protection system for Fresno County's most vulnerable communities to wildfire. This project will treat 1,750 acres of the network within the Jose Basin on private and Federal lands of the Sierra National Forest.

These treatments will provide Fresno County's front country with the greatest benefit to wildfire prevention for 12 Very High Hazard communities and 3,500 private parcels.

9- -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-FKU-78919393 County of Fresno 2025-26 Auberry Road and Peterson Road Shaded Fuel Break Maintenance Fresno County * $ 950,000. 00 The project consists of fuel break maintenance treatments.

The Auberry Road Shaded Fuel Break (Auberry) totals 263 acres and the Peterson Road Shaded Fuel Break (Peterson) totals 234 acres in Very High Hazard Severity Zones. The Auberry break was constructed east of the community of Auberry and directly north of the Meadow Lakes and Bald Mountain communities.

The Peterson break was constructed in the middle of the Peterson Road community, east of Shaver Springs and south of the Cressman communities. Approximately 972 structures exist within, and 3,232 structures exist near the project boundary. 25-WP-FKU-79249061 County of Fresno 2025-26 Huntington Lake Road, Camp Sierra Road, and Huntington Lodge Road Hazardous Fuels Reduction Fresno County * $ 950,000.

00 The proposed project's boundary covers 470 acres of roadside clearance. Approximately 956 structures exist within, and near, the project boundary in the eastern portion of the County of Fresno. Approximately 470 acres in roadside clearance along Huntington Lake, Camp Sierra, and Huntington Lodge Roads will be treated by removing and disposing of dead, dying, or diseased hazard trees that pose a threat to safe ingress and egress.

Approximately 2,200 dead, dying, or diseased hazard trees and 15,000 cubic yards of ground fuels have been identified for removal and disposal in the project area. Oak To Timberline Fire Safe Council (OTFSC) Upper Millwood Fuel Break Fresno County $ 903,392. 00 OTFSC proposes to create a new 400' wide shaded fuel break in Upper Millwood including maintenance of older fuel breaks.

The 3 mi. project will treat 128 SRA acres, helping to protect ~36 woodland properties in the immediate vicinity as well as ~1,100 residents and ~650 structures in the 3 adjacent At-Risk foothill communities. This project, together with the Hume Lake Ranger District's planned FRA fuel break project, will provide a landscape scale fuel break from which CAL FIRE FKU will execute broadcast burns in their planned CalVTP project.

>70% landowners are already on board. 10 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Bridgeville Community Center Van Duzen Watershed Community Wildfire Resilience Humboldt County * $ 949,455.

84 Van Duzen Watershed Fire Safe Council with fiscal sponsor Bridgeville Community Center is implementing wildfire mitigation measures within the Bridgeville Fire District located in the Mad-Van Duzen Planning Unit of the Humboldt County CWPP. The project executes CWPP priorities via 30 miles (approx. 233 ac.)

of roadside hazardous fuels reduction along key transportation corridors of Kneeland Rd and Alderpoint Rd to protect ingress/egress for 500-600 residents, completes defensible spaces on 50+ residences (approx. 75 ac.) , and reduces fuels on 3+ miles (approx.

23 ac.) of neighborhood roads. Humboldt County Resource Conservation District Community Wildfire Protection Plan Phase VI Humboldt County * $ 947,515.

63 This project will protect life, property and resources with an emphasis on project areas within the WUI for maximum public benefit. Phase VI includes implementation of 230-acres in 5 projects identified in the 2019 Humboldt County CWPP to create fire resilient communities. 4 roadside shaded fuel breaks to improve ingress/egress on 120 total acres and 1 prescribed fire unit on 110 acres occur in High or Moderate Fire Severity Zones.

Phase VI occurs across Humboldt County in the communities of McKinleyville, Petrolia, Whitethorn and Salmon Creek and will protect over 200 habitable structures. 25-WP-KRN-79208546 Kern County Fire Department Pine Mountain Club Wildfire Defense Zone -Phase 1 Kern County * $ 876,368. 00 The Pine Mountain Club Wildfire Defense Zone project aims to increase the wildfire resilience around PMC.

The project will create fuel breaks along ridgetops and other areas deemed appropriate for potential wildfire defense locations. The community contains approximately 2,392 people who inhabit 2,193 residential and commercial structures. Pine Mountain Club rests in the heart of the Los Padres National Forest and has very little fire history along its borders.

This project will create tactical fuel breaks through much of the accumulated flammable material in and around the community. 11 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-KRN-79257469 National Forest Foundation Tecuya Ridge Shaded Fuel Break Kern County * $ 948,640.

00 The Tecuya Ridge Shaded Fuel Break Project proposes vegetation management on 1,423 acres within the Mt. Pinos Ranger District, Los Padres National Forest, in Kern County, CA. Located near Lebec, Frazier Park, and Pine Mountain, the project includes mechanical and hand thinning of mixed conifer, pinyon-juniper, and sagebrush-scrub to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health.

Treatments are strategically placed near communities and infrastructure to enhance fire suppression and protect habitable structures. 25-WP-KRN-79472690 Kern Fire Safe Council Frontier Trail and Kernville Community Protection Plan Kern County * $ 816,677. 12 Frontier Trail is a Wildland Urban Interface community with about 50 homes near Kernville, CA.

The project aims to improve safety for the larger Kernville area, home to around 780 houses. It plans to conduct hazardous fuel reduction on about 180 acres using three main treatments: 2. 5 miles of roadside brush clearance (30 acres), assistance in creating defensible space around homes (40 acres), and thinning of overgrown areas (110 acres).

This effort will build on existing firebreaks made by the Kern County Fire Department and will support fire management work in nearby Sequoia National Forest. Conservation Corps of Long Beach Catalina Community Wildfire Resilience Project The Conservation Corps of Long Beach (CCLB) proposes the Catalina Community Wildfire Resilience Project to maintain and enhance fire fuel load reduction efforts on Catalina Island.

Wildfire risk is elevated due to changes in regional climate patterns, increased vegetation growth, and the lack of resources to manage drying fire fuels and maintain fire breaks. CCLB Corpsmembers will work alongside the Catalina Island Conservancy (CIC) and local fire authorities to perform hazardous fuel reduction treatments on approximately 450 acres of land, protecting an estimated 1,800 habitable structures.

12 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Los Angeles County Fire Department Mt. Baldy SRA Safety Evacuation Corridor Project The project begins at Manker Campground and Mt. Baldy Road.

Then proceeds south and ends just north of Shinn Road. The project will help provide a safe evacuation corridor for the residents of Mt. Baldy, within the SRA for Los Angeles County.

Notable habitable structures are the adjacent residential houses as well as Mt. Baldy Elementary School. The project will combine mechanical treatment, prescribed burning, and roadside brushing for approximately 40 acres of the SRA Mt Baldy evacuation corridor.

Puente Hills Habitat Preservation Authority Puente Hills Fuels Reduction - Maintenance The proposed project will reduce the risk of wildland fires to habitable structures and communities of Whittier and Hacienda Heights, by maintaining approximately 73.

5 acres of wildland urban interface defensible space and contribute as needed to reduce the fuel load with removal of dead, dying, and/or hazardous trees and/or fuels reduction of emergency access routes. The Puente Hills are surrounded by over 20,000-100,000 homes within a short drive. The areas are located in CAL FIRE's Very High Fire Hazard Z ones.

The Puente Hills Habitat Preservation Authority is a joint powers agency. San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments SGV Wildfire Resilience and Fuel Reduction Program The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments (SGVCOG) proposes a regionally coordinated wildfire risk reduction initiative focused on communal defensible space treatments across High-Risk Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) zones in foothill cities of the San Gabriel Valley.

The project aims to treat approximately 250-375 acres and protect an estimated 22,000-34,000 habitable structures. Project activities will reduce ignition potential, improve evacuation safety, and enhance regional wildfire resilience.

13 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description The Plumas County Fire Safe Council East Shore Shaded Fuel Break - Phase 1 Plumas County * $ 949,232. 50 East Shore Shaded Fuel Break Phase 1 treats 738. 3 acres via mastication along Lake Almanor's eastern shore in Plumas County, CA.

Partnership between PCFSC, LFSC and Hamilton Branch/East Shore Firewise protects at least 302 structures in East Shore, CA, infrastructure (Hwy 147, BNSF railroad, PGandE lines) and additional Almanor Basin communities. SPI's 499. 1 acres and PGandE's 239.

2 acres leverage cost-effective rates ($800 - 1K/acre) and streamlined EPP permitting. Initial phase of landscape-scale strategy connecting to the LFSC's Dyer WUI project for comprehensive Lake Almanor basin protection. 25-WP-LMU-78783832 Lassen Fire Safe Council, Inc. Dyer WUI Fuels Phase II Plumas County * $ 949,951.

52 Shovel-ready hazardous fuels reduction across 889 acres in the wildland urban interface (WUI) of Lassen and Plumas Counties (96137). Targeted communities include Westwood, Clear Creek, Hamilton Branch, Pine Town, and the Almanor Peninsula. The project reduces wildfire risk for 1,565 habitable structures by connecting, maintaining, and expanding existing treatments along Highway 36, Highway 147, and A-21 corridors.

25-WP-LMU-78784562 Lassen Fire Safe Council, Inc. Lassen Countywide Defensible Space Program Lassen County * $ 949,999. 43 The Lassen Countywide Defensible Space Program aims to implement hazardous fuels reduction treatments to meet Public Resources Code 4291 standards on eligible properties, with a focus on priority populations in Lassen County, Ca. Lassen County contains approximately 12,273 habitable structures.

The program will treat around 800 acres within the 0-100 foot defensible space zone surrounding residences of vulnerable populations, prioritizing those located in High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones.

14 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Solano Resource Conservation District Solano County Fire Resilience Project Solano County * $ 435,877.

91 The Solano County Fire Resilience Project reduces fire risk across high-hazard areas in Solano and Yolo Counties through strategic hazardous fuels reduction on rural roads. The project directly treats 55.

68 acres and builds upon ongoing fire recovery efforts following the devastating 2020 LNU Lightning Complex fires while implementing priority recommendations from the Solano County and Yolo County Community Wildfire Protection Plans. The Napa Communities Firewise Foundation Lake-Napa County WUI, Roadside and Prescribed Burn Project Napa County * $ 949,941. 60 The Lake-Napa County WUI Project funds wildfire risk reduction in three areas.

In Southern Lake County, a 50 - acre prescribed burn on the Middletown Rancheria will mitigate fire risk near homes. Northern Napa County will see a 70-acre roadside clearance project on Montesol Ranch to improve the evacuation route on Highway 29. Finally, Southern Napa County will have 47 acres of vegetation cleared in the foothills to protect communities in a high-risk wildland-urban interface.

South Lake County Fire Protection District Middletown And Cobb Community Evacuation Routes - Phase 2 Lake County * $ 847,654.

40 The Middletown and Cobb Community Evacuation Routes - Phase 2 project, treating approximately 528 acres along 29 miles of area roads, is focused on improving evacuation routes for residents, improving emergency response vehicle safety/ingress to wildland - urban interface homes and reducing fire intensity from approaching wildfires within and adjacent to the South Lake County Fire Protection District.

The project will reduce the risk to the community by improving evacuation routes and control lines by removing vegetation and hazardous trees posing imminent threat to public rights-of-way.

15 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Mendocino Access Route Maintenance Mendocino County * $ 925,735.

38 Since 2020, MCFSC and partners have accomplished approximately 119 miles/1,038 acres of shaded fuel breaks and road-clearing on key ingress/egress routes throughout Mendocino County. A review of sample locations indicates that maintenance work should happen within 3-5 years post-treatment.

This grant would allow us to 1) revisit those worksites, starting with the highest-use locations, 2) prioritize the need for re-treatment in consultation with the MEU, and 3) implement re-treatment of 145 acres of the highest-priority and/or highest-need locations. Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Brooktrails Unimproved Parcel Fuel Reduction Mendocino County * $ 938,431.

87 This project will provide fuel reduction on at least 126 acres on unimproved parcels and the community Greenbelt in the rural Brooktrails area NW of Willits (99% High FHSZ), creating defensible space of 200' from 50+ neighboring residences, where those owners can't legally do work.

Work will be done using a CCC crew, subcontractors, and MCFSC's in-house fuel-reduction crew, and our unique access to unimproved parcels in the Brooktrails area. This proposal also includes funding for a part-time staff member to work with private landowners to promote prescribed PBA burning in the county. 25-WP-MMU-78801192 County of Mariposa Mariposa County Roadside Vegetation Treatment Phase 2 Mariposa County * $ 908,432.

00 This project is a maintenance project that builds upon the roadside fuels reduction work that will be completed in CAL FIRE Grant 5TR23204 in addition to roadside fuels reduction completed by Mariposa County Public Works for a total of 966 acres, including 1,500 habitable structures.

The project will involve use of herbicides to treat areas recently treated with mastication and hand crews to enhance efficacy and extend the time until retreatment is required. Treatment areas are 26 feet from road center on both sides of 153 miles of County-maintained roadways in HFHSZ and VHFHSZ.

16 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description Eastern Madera County Fire Safe Council Bissett Laterals and Rd 620 Fuel Break Madera County * $ 688,068. 22 Coarsegold Resource Conservation District Eastern Madera County Fire Prevention Assistance Phase II Madera County * $ 954,709.

32 CRCD is planning on continuing the fire prevention assistance work in Eastern Madera County Firewise communities which includes Oakhurst, North Fork, Coarsegold, Bass Lake, Ahwahnee, Nipinnawasee, Wishon, O'Neals and Cascadel. Most of these communities are considered High to Very High Fire Severity Zones.

We will provide at least 230 acres of defensible space work within the current 34 Firewise communities (1900 dwellings), the anticipated 9-15 (120 dwellings) new communities, the 20 individual homes with at least 10% of these being on Tribal land. 25-WP-MMU-79497882 Mariposa Fire Safe Council Countywide Brush and Chip Mariposa County * $ 659,893.

02 Our goal is to reduce fire fuels around homes and along access routes, prioritizing low-income, elderly, and disabled residents. Services include brushing and chipping on residential properties, plus fire safety education. Two options: 1) Brushing for qualifying residents, and 2) Chipping for all who prep materials.

Citizen labor counts as in-kind match. Outcomes: 500 homes served, 180 acres cleared, $209,340 in in-kind labor, and educational materials distributed. 17 - -CAL FIRE California Investments (CCI) Program FY 2025 2026 Fire Prevention Grant Recipient List Tracking number Applicant Project Title County Awarded Amount Project Description 25-WP-MMU-79539449 Madera County Walker Grade