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Fire Management Plans

Every acre of burnable vegetation in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is managed according to a Fire Management Plan (FMP). There are over 630 individual administrative units of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined to need a Fire Management Plan. Some have extensive burnable vegetation requiring detailed information on what values need protection from fire and what values need enhancement with fire. Others have no, or little burnable vegetation and either do not require a Fire Management Plan, have been exempted by the Regional Director from fire management planning, or only need a simple plan.

Start by selecting a Region from the menu below.

• Region 1 - Pacific
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Oregon
• Washington

• Region 2 - Southwest
• Arizona
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Texas

• Region 3 - Great Lakes / Big Rivers
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Ohio
• Wisconsin

• Region 4 - Southeast
• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Florida
• Georgia
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Tennessee

• Region 5 - Northeast
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• Virginia
• West Virginia

• Region 6 - Mountain Prairie
• Colorado
• Kansas
• Montana
• Nebraska
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Utah
• Wyoming

• Region 7 - Alaska
• Alaska

• Region 8 - California / Nevada
• California
• Nevada

• DOI and FWS Guidance for Fire Management Plan Development
• Interagency FMP Template
• FWS Guidance for the Interagency FMP Template
• Interagency FMP Template Checklist

The individual Fire Management Plans, along with any accompanying documentation are in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.  The size of the document is also indicated (i.e., 345K).

Note: For best results download and save the document and open it with the appropriate software.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages public land in every U.S. state and territory, including 547 national wildlife refuges and 69 national fish hatcheries.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages 75 million burnable acres, including 24 million acres of forest/brushland and 4 million acres of grassland.

More than 50% of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands in the continental U.S. (and more than 90% in Alaska) include fire-adapted ecosystems with vegetation dependent on periodic fire.

An average of 500 wildfires burn 260,000 acres each year on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands. The Service also burns about 300,000 acres a year using prescribed fire.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service annual fire program budget is approximately $80 million.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employs more than 530 permanent fire professionals, along with 270 seasonal and temporary fire employees during fire season.

More than 3,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees are qualified to assist with wildland fire management on an interagency basis.

The U.S. Fish and Wildland Service Fire Management Program protects more than 700 communities and wildland-urban interface areas.

Historically, an acre was the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one day. This measures 90% of a football field. There are 640 acres in a square mile.

More than 90% of the hazardous fuels reduction by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is completed using prescribed fire.