The Boulder County is now accepting applications for its Strategic Fuels Mitigation Grant Program.
Donor Name: Boulder County
State: Colorado
County: Boulder County (CO)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/04/2026
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Nonprofit organizations, fire protection districts, homeowners associations, and local municipalities are encouraged to apply. The goal of the program is to reduce hazardous fuels on landscape-scale, cross-boundary or community-wide wildfire mitigation projects throughout the county.
This grant opportunity is designed to increase the pace and scale of fuels mitigation across the county. These funds support large-scale forest and grasslands management projects to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, protect critical watersheds and infrastructure, and promote resilient ecosystems.
Types of Grants
- Forest Fuels Mitigation Grant
- Grasslands Fuels Mitigation Grant.
Funding Information
- There is $2 milion available each year over two application cycles: Spring and Fall.
- Due to increasing demands for funding, beginning in the Spring 2026 cycle, we will limit the request amount per application, per cycle to $600,000. Requests of more than $600K may be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants should be prepared to scale their projects when feasible.
Grant Period
There is a 3-year project completion deadline for fuels mitigation projects and a 2-year deadline for CWPP planning projects
Uses of Funds
Forest Fuels Mitigation Grants:
- Creation or maintenance of fuel breaks.
- Fuels reduction by various appropriate methods, including mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, and others, designed to protect water supplies and/or reduce potential fire intensity.
- Removal of saleable woody materials with specific utilization plans.
- The removal/disposal of slash and non-merchantable materials using methods such as chipping, mulching, grinding, pile burning, broadcast burning or mechanical removal.
- Cross-boundary projects that may include private, local government, and federal lands.
- Grassland Fuels Mitigation Grants:
- Fuels reduction by various appropriate methods including mowing, grazing, shrub/tree removal, chipping, or prescribed fire.
- Prescribed burning projects with the objectives of reducing wildfire risk.
- Local government open space management projects with the objectives of reducing wildfire risk.
- Ditch fuels reduction projects.
- Cross-boundary projects that may include private, local government, and federal lands.
Eligibility Criteria
- Local government entities in Boulder County.
- Private utilities, ditch companies, and water providers.
- State agencies that own or manage land in Boulder County.
- Homeowners Associations (HOA)
- Non-profit organizations:
- For Grasslands projects, only HOAs managing larger open space areas or buffers outside of their community boundary can apply.
For more information, visit Boulder County.
