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Fire Program Statistics

2004 Non-WUI Treatments :: Southeast Region

Refuge	Number	RX Acres	Mech Acres	Total Acres
Ace Basin NWR	1	4,485		4,485
Alligator River NWR	4	7,312		7,312
Cape Romain NWR	1	500		500
Carolina Sandhills NWR	1	200		200
Harris Neck NWR	9	649		649
Lake Woodruff NWR	5	2,324		2,324
Lower Suwannee NWR	4	929		929
Mackay Island NWR	2	150		150
Mattamuskeet NWR	8	855		855
Merritt Island NWR	4	1,491		1,491
Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR	1	480		480
Noxubee NWR	11	1,723		1,723
Okefenokee NWR	4	1,179		1,179
Piedmont NWR	4	2,056		2,056
Pocosin Lakes NWR	1		102	102
Sabine NWR	3	3,900		3,900
Santee NWR	1	250		250
Savannah Coastal Refuges	4	5,871		5,871
Southeast Louisiana Refuges	2	135		135
St. Marks NWR	23	2,445	20	2,465
St. Vincent NWR	15	1,933		1,933
Swanquarter NWR	1	1,926		1,926
Total	109	40,793	122	40,915

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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.