Fire Management Assistance Grant — CFDA 97.046

FMAG obligations at $418.6M

USAspending.gov records $418,583,962.81 in obligations under CFDA 97.046. Those 106 awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $3.95 million per award. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical award and not a unit cost for acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. Other FEMA disaster or fire listings under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $418,583,962.81.

The assistance-listing title is FIRE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE GRANT. CFDA 97.046 is the identifier. Read the $418.6M headline — $418,583,962.81 in the award file — as the obligation book tagged 97.046 only. USAspending.gov assistance awards are the source. This page does not convert obligations into outlays or into a count of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed.

106 awards on 17 fire-management applicants

17 recipients share 106 awards. That is about 6.2 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $418,583,962.81 evenly would assign about $24.62 million per recipient. That density is a packet quotient, not a typical grant size and not a cost per unit of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. The packet does not list the 17 named organizations. Read $418,583,962.81 only against CFDA 97.046.

Sixteen jurisdictions is a wildfire-declaration map, not a 50-state fire formula. FMAG dollars follow funded state and local fire-management applicants in those coded places. Place-of-performance amounts, if shown, live on the program table. Recipient count is organizational, not a census of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. A simple average is about $3.95 million per award. Combining 97.046 with other FEMA disaster or fire listings under different CFDA numbers would invent a combined total this packet does not contain.

Award rows are not an acres-burned census

Among assistance listings, 97.046 is a concentrated wildfire-state file: 106 awards against 17 named recipients in 16 jurisdictions. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of projects” and a worse proxy for acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. The recipient field (17 recipients) tells you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (106) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. Citing 106 as that unit would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, jurisdictions. The $418,583,962.81 stock is the obligation figure from USAspending.gov. Seventeen recipients in 16 jurisdictions is a concentrated wildfire-assistance fingerprint.

Obligations versus FMAG outlays

The $418,583,962.81 is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against Fire Management Assistance Grant awards — are not in the packet. A file can show a large obligation stock while draws, reimbursements, or closeouts follow a different schedule. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. Treasury outlays are a separate series.

Use CFDA 97.046 to size this listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a dashboard of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 97.046. The $418.6M figure is the compact form of $418,583,962.81.

What the 97.046 tables omit

Geographic coding covers 16 jurisdictions. Sixteen jurisdictions is a wildfire-declaration map, not a 50-state fire formula. FMAG dollars follow funded state and local fire-management applicants in those coded places. It is not an acres-burned dashboard, not a Stafford Act public-assistance total, and not a count of every wildfire. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $418,583,962.81.

Place-of-performance on 16 jurisdictions is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares of Fire Management Assistance Grant funding. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already paid.

Where the 97.046 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 97.046 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other listings. For 97.046 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 97.046’s 106 awards spread $418,583,962.81 across 17 recipients and 16 jurisdictions. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 6.2 award records per recipient is the density story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for Fire Management Assistance Grants?

USAspending.gov records $418,583,962.81 in obligations for CFDA 97.046. SpendingVault indexes 106 awards, 17 recipients, and 16 jurisdictions. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a count of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. CFDA 97.046’s $418.6M is the compact form of that USAspending stock.

How many awards does CFDA 97.046 carry?

The listing shows 106 awards against 17 recipients, or about 6.2 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $3.95 million per award. Award count is not a count of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 97.046 awards?

The extract lists 17 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 97.046, not a census of acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. Geographic coding covers 16 jurisdictions. The packet does not name them. The packet reports obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.

Is $418.6M already spent on fire suppression?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 97.046’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or acres burned, fires contained, or firefighter hours billed. The $418.6M ($418,583,962.81) on 106 awards is the obligation figure.