Fire Program Statistics

Fire Program Statistics

2007 Wildfires :: Southeast Region

Refuge	# Fires	FWS Acres	Other Acres	Total Acres
Alligator River NWR	7	1,086.8	130.0	1,216.8
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee NWR	5	8,030.0		8,030.0
Big Branch Marsh NWR	11	25.2		25.2
Bon Secour NWR	1	73.0	107.0	180.0
Cabo Rojo NWR	3	18.0		18.0
Cache River NWR	2	7.4		7.4
Cape Romain NWR	1	4.0		4.0
Caribbean Islands Refuges	4	27.5	5.5	33.0
Carolina Sandhills NWR	2	.2		.2
Chickasaw NWR	1	40.0		40.0
Central Arkansas Refuges	1	.1		.1
Currituck NWR	1	4.0		4.0
D'Arbonne NWR	1	.1		.1
Ernest F. Hollings Ace Basin NWR	1	1.0		1.0
Florida panther NWR	9	2,610.6	61,461.0	64,071.6
Grand Bay NWR	8	99.7	113.6	213.3
Lake Wales Ridge NWR	2	6.0		6.0
Lake Woodruff NWR	4	18.5		18.5
Lower Suwannee NWR	6	9.3		9.3
Mackay Island NWR	3	61.1		61.1
Merritt Island NWR	6	13.4		13.4
Morgan Brake NWR	1	.2		.2
Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR	4	2.4	25.3	27.7
North Mississippi Refuges	1	23.0		23.0
National Key Deer Refuge	3	8.3		8.3
Noxubee NWR	3	21.0		21.0
Okefenokee NWR	8	366,698.7	132,882.0	499,580.7
Pee Dee NWR	1	2.0	18.0	20.0
Pelican Island NWR	1	10.0		10.0
Piedmont NWR	5	1.1	1.0	2.1
Pocosin Lakes NWR	4	50.3		50.3
Sabine NWR	1	30.0		30.0
Savannah-Pickney National Wildlife Rfgs	2	.2		.2
St. Johns NWR	3	160.0	410.0	570.0
St. Marks NWR	19	998.9	41.3	1,040.2
St. Vincent NWR	1	.2		.2
Upper Ouachita NWR	1	.2		.2
Waccamaw NWR	1	.1		.1
Wassaw NWR	1	1,076.0		1,076.0
Wheeler NWR	1	.3		.3
White River NWR	4	15.0	10.0	25.0
Yazoo NWR	1	3.0		3.0
Total	145	381,236.8	195,204.7	576,441.5

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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.