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Fire Program Statistics

2004 WUI Treatments :: Southeast Region

Refuge	Number	RX Acres	Mech Acres	Total Acres
Ace Basin NWR	6	2,722	15	2,737
Alligator River NWR	3	714	12	726
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee NWR	5	7,924		7,924
Bayou Sauvage NWR	1	1,500		1,500
Bon Secour NWR	2	320		320
Cape Romain NWR	1		15	15
Carolina Sandhills NWR	14	6,605		6,605
Cedar Island NWR	7	4,637	100	4,737
Currituck NWR	2	367		367
D'Arbonne NWR	1	112		112
Felsenthal NWR	8	2,170		2,170
Florida Panther NWR	8	4,885		4,885
Grand Bay NWR	1	238		238
Harris Neck NWR	1		20	20
J.N. Ding Darling NWR	12	177		177
Lake Woodruff NWR	16	1,107		1,107
Lower Suwannee NWR	3	935		935
Mackay Island NWR	2	1,480		1,480
Merritt Island NWR	20	8,008	500	8,508
Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR	12	2,418	344	2,762
National Key Deer Refuge	7	215	5	220
Noxubee NWR	14	3,219		3,219
Okefenokee NWR	11	3,500	500	4,000
Pee Dee NWR	1	435		435
Piedmont NWR	11	5,998		5,998
Pickney Island NWR	8	555		555
Pocosin Lakes NWR	4	1,143	150	1,293
Santee NWR	1		25	25
Savannah Coastal Refuges	6	2,180	10	2,190
Savannah NWR	15	1,586	65	1,651
Southeast Louisiana Refuges	1		55	55
St. Johns NWR	3	1,558		1,558
St. Marks NWR	33	12,463		12,463
Upper Ouachita NWR	3	319		319
Total	243	79,490	1,816	81,306

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Interior Fire Program Assessment

Did You Know...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages public land in every U.S. state and territory, including 550 national wildlife refuges and 70 national fish hatcheries.

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

More than 80% 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 300,000 acres each year on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands. The Service also burns more than 350,000 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 500 permanent fire professionals, along with 200 seasonal and temporary fire employees during fire season.

More than 2,000 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.