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Fire Program Statistics

2004 Non-WUI Treatments :: California/Nevada Operations

Refuge	Number	RX Acres	Mech Acres	Total Acres
Ash Meadows NWR	1		31	31
Colusa NWR	1	50		50
Delevan NWR	3	119		119
Lower Klamath NWR	9	5,032		5,032
Merced NWR	7	701	100	801
Modoc NWR	1	348		348
Red Bluff Fish and Wildlife Office	1	1		1
Ruby Lake NWR	3	6		6
Sacramento NWRC	7	79		79
Sacramento River NWR	10	234	3	237
San Joaquin River NWR	5	345	50	395
San Luis NWR	8	524	150	674
San Luis NWRC	8	331	12	343
Stillwater NWR	3	537		537
Stone Lakes NWR	1	25		25
Tule Lake NWR	90	14,282		14,282
Total	158	22,614	346	22,960

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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.