America’s biggest, most competitive fire grant
Current application period: FY 2023
Application period opens
January 29, 2024, at 8:00 a.m. EST
Application deadline
March 8, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. EST
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Program information
About AFG fire grants
AFG is America’s largest fire grant program. Provided through FEMA and DHS, the FY 2022 AFG program awarded 1,995 fire grant awards, totaling $720 million.
What does AFG do?
AFG focuses on enhancing the safety of the public and firefighters with respect to fire and fire-related hazards. The program provides financial assistance directly to eligible fire departments, nonaffiliated emergency medical service (EMS) organizations, and State Fire Training Academies (SFTAs) for critical training and equipment.
The AFG Program has awarded over $8 billion in grant funding to provide critically needed resources that equip and train emergency personnel to recognized standards, enhance operational efficiencies, foster interoperability, and support community resilience.
As of the FY 2018 AFG program, FEMA has awarded AFG fire grants to over 3,800 Fire Service and EMS organizations from coast to coast, large and small, urban and rural, including:
- Over 600 fire apparatuses
- More than 102,000 PPE items
- 124,000 other fire equipment items
Agencies awarded the FY 2022 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program (AFGP) receive funds to
- Provide critically needed resources that equip and train emergency personnel to recognized standards
- Enhance operational efficiencies
- Foster interoperability, and
- Support community resilience
How to apply
Applicants must set up and maintain an active account in SAM.gov.
To apply for AFG, use FEMA GO.
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