Active Funding Requests
Last Updated: November 4th, 2026
The below are high level summaries of active ODFN funding requests listed newest to oldest by date of request. Active funding requests are no older than six months. For access to our more detailed Funding Tracker, please contact us.
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REGION
DISASTER
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $73,500
Application Materials
Seeking funding for firefighter personal protective clothing and fire shelters:
Structural (house/building) fire protective clothing consisting of helmet and full bunker plants and jacket at $5,500 per set; five sets at $27,500 or ten sets at $55,000.
Wildland/forest fire protective clothing consisting of helmet, pants and coat and gloves at $5,750 for five sets and $11,500 for ten sets.
Fire shelters (one person tents) to protect fire fighters from being overrun by a fire. $700 per shelter. Five shelters at $3500 or ten at $7,000.
Jefferson Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $10,500
We are requesting funding to purchase three new AEDs. These units are critical in the event of a cardiac arrest, not only to the citizens we respond to but also in the event that a firefighter suffers a cardiac event.
Jordan Valley Rangeland Fire Protection Association
Request: $25,000
Requesting funds to partially cover the cost of a low boy trailer to tow a dozer to fire lines. This RFPA serves specifically Jordan Valley, Rome, Arock, Burns Junction, Rockville, and is comprised of volunteer fire fighters who intially respond to all to range fires in our area. Because volunteers are the initial attack to range fires before government resources arrive, it is crucial to have adequate equipment.
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $60,100
Application Materials
The requested items are not part of the capital or operation budgets. If funded, any of the following items would assist La Pine Fire is serving 22,000 residents and visitors:
1000 feet of 5 inch hose $9,500 for 1000 feet or $950 per 100 feet
Portable/mobile radios Portables $5000 mobiles $15000
Task Force Tip Nozzles $1300 per nozzle - five units
Thermal Imager Replacement/Addition for squirt $6000
EMS Training Mannequin $7000
Update station security camera system $5000
Replacement PPE, $500 per structural helmet, $5000 for full bunker gear, $100 per wildland helmet, $400 boots, $550 wildland pant and coat, $100 for gloves, and $700 for wildland shelters.
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $216,945
Application Materials
La Pine Fire lacks sufficient number of portable radios. Portable radios are a fundamental piece of equipment for firefighters, essential for ensuring their safety, coordinating operations, and ultimately saving lives and property.
Solution: Obtain 33 multiband portable radios and 13 replacement radios for the Legacy VHF radios. The 13 Legacy radios will replace radios that cannot be serviced. The 33 radios cost $4,665 or $153,945. The 13 replacement radios cost $6,000 or $78,000.
Jefferson Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $26,000
We are requesting funds to purchase portable radios. These radios are critical in the communication of our crews. Our current radios are old, outdated and unreliable. The new radios have a higher transmitting wattage and create better communications. This funding is critical is allowing our personnel to communicate with each other, our dispatch center, and other responding agencies. The purchase of these radio will be a huge safety relief to our orgainizations.
South Santiam Watershed Council
Request: $40,000
Application Materials
Linn County contains an extensive network of gravel and forestry roads across a checkerboard of private industrial and federal timberlands. Through Wildfire Ready Linn County, SSWC is coordinating a roadside fuels and access inventory covering approximately 3,500 miles of forest roads. A suitable high-clearance, four-wheel-drive truck is essential to safely and efficiently reach remote roads and complete this fieldwork. We are requesting $40,000 to purchase a used vehicle that will enable this critical wildfire preparedness project.
Vernonia Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $75,000
Application Materials
VRFPD is a combination fire department, maintaining one part-time Fire Chief and four full time firefighter personnel, while relying heavily on volunteer firefighters to answer the call of their neighbors. We respond to approximately 700 calls per year.
Last year we received a grant for brand-new SCBA's, which are currently in service. However, a major problem exists: We are unable to refill these airpacks locally after they have been expended. Six years ago our original refilling equipment failed, and in order for us to refill the tanks we must drive 25 minutes to the next closest fire department with a fill station. Each bottle takes about 5 minutes to fill, then we drive 25 minutes back to Vernonia. If we are filling 5-10 bottles, this takes away our ability to rapidly deploy into fire and/or rescue situations. A recent quote for a new machine is $130,000 which includes the unit, testing and installation.
Adair Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $10,000
Application Materials
Adair RFPD is a small rural fire department dedicated to the service of our community, neighboring communities, and the state of Oregon at large. We provide fire and EMS services to our district and mutual aid partners. Adair RFPD is an active participant in statewide conflagrations during wildfire season and throughout the year. We are requesting funding for two radios, which will improve communications in radio "shadowed" spots.
Long Tom Watershed Council
Request: $18,500
Chaa-lamali, TEIP's outdoor classroom, falls under Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) Protection Districts and the Western Lane Districts.
As the fire season in our area is predicted to become more extreme and longer, we should take decisive action this year. Acquiring a 300+-gallon firefighting water trailer for Chaa-lamali is a practical step, with an estimated cost of around $18,500. This will allow us to meet the on-site mobile water requirements for fire suppression, as required by ODF.
Jackson County Library Services
Request: $50,000
Application Materials
Jackson County Library Services (JCLS) operates 15 strategically located facilities throughout Jackson County, providing accessible community resources, information, technology, and support to residents.
We are seeking funding to:
Enhance emergency communications and preparedness capabilities, including backup power and satellite communications.
Improve JCLS’s ability to serve as a reliable community resource during disasters, power outages, severe weather, and other emergencies.
Ability to have emergency food and water sources on hand along with other needed emergency supplies
La Pine Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $259,830
Requesting multiband portable radios and replacement of Legacy VHF radios. Total funding request. La Pine Fire lacks sufficient mobile and portable radios. Portable radios are a fundamental piece of equipment for firefighters, essential for ensuring their safety, coordinating operations, and ultimately saving lives and property.
Silver Creek RFPA
Request: $25,000
We are asking for a grant to support the purchase of a dozer and repairs to our other firefighting vehicles after battling the Second Flat Fire. We used our hummers and heavy trucks to the point we were having to rotate them out to ones that were running while someone ran to Boise for parts.
Jacksonville Fire Department
Request: $57,000
Application Materials
The Jacksonville Fire Department is seeking $57,000 to purchase a replacement command pickup truck. Our current vehicle has reached the end of its useful service life and no longer reliably meets the demands of emergency response, incident command, wildfire operations, inspections, and daily department operations.
Gilliam Soil & Water Conservation District: Seed
Request: $74,993
Application Materials
An estimated 11,000 acres of standing winter wheat burned, approximately one seventh of the county's annual crop. New seed will prevent that bare ground filling with weeds that become future fire tinder, and the seed must be planted in October. Landowners will plant with their own equipment and fuel, this request is for the seed to replant, and four broadcast spreaders that attach to a side-by-side to seed steep and rocky ground.
Central Cascades Fire & EMS
Request: $85,000
We are in need of a 4wd, 4 dr, crew cab pickup with tool boxes and water tank for Community Risk Reduction efforts, Fuels Reduction/Mitigation and Crew/Staff use. Capable of towing our Fuels Reduction Trailer throughout the community and region as we continue to work to reduce wildfire risks, improved response and recovery capabilities through community education and hands on efforts. We have limited vehicles for staff use and currently our only similar vehicle is being used on a wildfire conflagration supporting firefighters.
Vernonia RFPD
Request: $35,000
Application Materials
Vernonia Fire lacks a second 4x4 small fire engine. With high-density forest areas, small, narrow driveways and many off-road areas, having a means to get firefighting equipment and water to a forest fire is crucial. A new 4WD "Type 6" fire engine costs around $300,000. For $35,000, we can convert a 10-year old truck into a small fire engine for rapid response. Our current wildland response rig is 23 years old.
City of Gold Beach
Request: $110,000
Application Materials
The City of Gold Beach and Gold Beach Wedderburn Fire District are in the process of conducting a feasibility study to do a merger and consolidation of the two districts and creating one district that would encompass both coverage areas. This would ensure fiscal stability for the fire district as well as the City of Gold Beach.The project will upgrade an aging response vehicle to ensure terrain-capable, trauma-informed chaplaincy support during wildfires, floods, and other emergency responses.
Wagontire RFPA
Request: $30,000
We are currently in need of another truck to pull a lowboy and dozer or an angle blade for a dozer. Both costs are about the same and we would decide which was needed the most at the time that finances were in order for the purchase and/or the availability of the needed equipment.
Jefferson Rural Fire Protection District
Request: $126,000*
*or partial award; see full request
The Jefferson Fire District is requesting funding for two ambulance gurneys, a power-load system, and thermal imaging cameras. This equipment is essential to maintaining and enhancing our life-saving capabilities during emergencies and natural disasters.