Fire Program Statistics

Fire Program Statistics

2010 WUI Treatments :: Southeast Region

Refuge	# Treatments	Rx Acres	Mech Acres	Other Acres	Total Acres
Alligator River NWR	32	210.0	274.0	7.0	491.0
ARM Loxahatchee NWR	3	12,933.0			12,933.0
Big Branch Marsh NWR	8	423.0	40.0	199.0	662.0
Bogu Chitto NWR	3			36.0	36.0
Carolina Sandhills NWR	11	2,890.0			2,890.0
Cedar Island NWR	14	1,866.0	37.0		1,903.0
Chassohowitzka NWR	1	30.0			30.0
Ernest F. Hollings Ace Basin NWR	16	1,814.0			1,814.0
Florida Panther NWR	16	2,540.0	257.0		2,797.0
Grand Bay NWR	4		12.0		12.0
Lacassine NWR	1	334.0			334.0
Lake Woodruff NWR	6	2,341.0			2,341.0
Lower Suwannee NWR	10	4,945.0			4,945.0
Mackay Island NWR	26	2,028.0	68.0		2,096.0
Mattamuskett NWR	13		120.0		120.0
Merritt Island NWR	12	8,028.0			8,028.0
Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR	68	3,213.0	505.0		3,718.0
Mountain Longleaf NWR	3	1,745.0			1,745.0
National Key Deer Refuge	5	51.0			51.0
Okefenokee NWR	19	1,733.0	37.0		1,770.0
Piedmont NWR	18	4,743.0	425.0		5,168.0
Pinckney Island NWR	2	133.0			133.0
Pocosin Lakes NWR	12	1,137.0	668.0		1,805.0
South Arkansas Refuges Complex	1	410.0			410.0
Santee NWR	6	181.0			181.0
Savannah-Pickney Natl Wildl Refuges	7	821.0			821.0
Southeast Louisianna Refuges	1	1.0			1.0
St. Johns NWR	2	150.0			150.0
St. Marks NWR	42	22,049.0			22,049.0
St. Vincent NWR	1	86.0			86.0
Total	363	76,835.0	2,443.0	242.0	79,520.0

Other Acres = Acres treated by a method other than prescribed fire or mechanical.

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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.