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Fire Program Statistics

2004 Non-WUI Treatments :: Great Lakes/Big Rivers Region

Refuge	Number	RX Acres	Mech Acres	Other Acres	Total Acres
Agassiz NWR	19	2,806	17		2,823
Big Oaks NWR	9	4,641			4,641
Big Stone NWR	12	1,439			1,439
Big Stone WMD	1	100			100
Crab Orchard NWR	8	276			276
Cypress Creek NWR	1	25			25
Desoto NWR	10	579			579
Detriot Lakes WMD	25	2,471			2,471
Driftless Area NWR	1	1			1
Fergus Falls WMD	28	2,261			2,261
Fox River NWR	4	108			108
Great River NWR	9	389			389
Hamden Slough NWR	3	364			364
Horicon NWR	6	239			239
Illinois River Refuges	1		10		10
Iowa WMD	2	270			270
Leopold WMD	23	1,142			1,142
Litchfield WMD	19	1,405	115		1,520
Mingo	1	11			11
Minnesota Valley NWR	8	417			417
Morris WMD	17	1,308			1,308
Neal Smith NWR	21	2,862	20		2,882
Necedah NWR	1	150			150
Ottawa NWR	2	59			59
Port Louisa NWR	30	2,808			2,808
Rice Lake NWR	4	1,854			1,854
Seney NWR	14	2,709			2,709
Shiawassee NWR	2	31			31
Squaw Creek NWR	6	135			135
St. Croix WMD	4	30	589	421	1,040
Tamarac NWR	16	578			578
Union Slough NWR	5	123			136
Upper MS River-Savanna Dist	1	40			40
Windom WMD	24	2,413			2,413
Total	337	34,044	764	421	35,229

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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.