Fire Program Statistics

Fire Program Statistics

2009 Non-WUI Treatments :: Southeast Region

Refuge	# Treatments	Rx Acres	Mech Acres	Other Acres	Total Acres
Alligator River NWR	10	2,963.0	33.0	81.0	3,077.0
A. R. M. Loxahatchee NWR	41	25,500.0		3,296.0	28,796.0
Big Branch Marsh NWR	4	1,130.0	348.0		1,478.0
Blackbeard Island NWR	12	145.0	67.0		212.0
Bogue Chitto NWR	2	115.0			115.0
Cabo Rojo NWR	23		170.0	12.0	182.0
Cahaba River NWR	4	1,066.0			1,066.0
Cameron Prairie NWR	1		1.5		1.5
Carolina Sandhills NWR	45	11,855.0			11,855.0
Cedar Island NWR	2		9.0		9.0
Currituck NWR	3	344.0	5.0		349.0
D'Arbonne NWR	1	30.0			30.0
E.F. Hollings Ace Basin NWR	14	421.0	652.0		1,073.0
Eufaula NWR	8	120.0	765.0	770.0	1,655.0
Felsenthal NWR	6	2,047.0			2,047.0
Florida Panther NWR	55	5,043.0	943.0		5,986.0
Grand Bay NWR	1		6.0		6.0
Harris Neck NWR	13	146.0	179.0		325.0
J.N. Ding Darling NWR	16	24.0	18.0		42.0
Lacassine NWR	1		9.0		9.0
Laguna Cartagena NWR	44		257.0	12.0	269.0
Lake Woodruff NWR	2	701.0			701.0
Lower Suwannee NWR	11	1,317.0			1,317.0
Mackay Island NWR	15	1,229.0	14.0	325.0	1,568.0
Mattamuskeet NWR	7	1.0	62.0		63.0
Merritt Island NWR	6	984.0	100.0		1,084.0
MS Sandhill Crane NWR	12	1,455.0	543.0		1,998.0
National Key Deer Refuge	2	18.0			18.0
Noxubee NWR	10	4,191.0			4,191.0
Okefenokee NWR	14	4,197.0	370.0		4,567.0
Pee Dee NWR	7	1,145.0			1,145.0
Piedmont NWR	52	11,139.0	375.0		11,514.0
Pickney Island NWR	20	27.0	73.0		100.0
Pocosin Lakes NWR	18	329.0	156.6	235.0	720.6
Santee NWR	19	289.0	208.0		497.0
Savannah-Pickney Refuges	24	1,033.2	80.0		1,113.2
Southeast LA Refuges	3	66.0			66.0
St. Marks NWR	4	5,872.0			5,872.0
St. Vincent NWR	7	6,417.0			6,417.0
Swanquarter NWR	6	5,929.0			5,929.0
Waccamaw NWR	4	38.0	33.0		71.0
Wassaw NWR	1		20.0		20.0
TOTAL	550	97,326.2	5,497.1	4,731.0	107,554.3

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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.