Row River Valley Community Partnership
Request: $200,000
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We are seeking $200,000 to construct a modest emergency response station and equipment cache. Our volunteer firefighters are currently operating from a temporary fire station located on privately owned property. That property has now been listed for sale. Once it is sold, the District will lose the only facility available to house its fire engines, emergency equipment, and operational resources.
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.
Crane RFPA
Request: $18,500
Requesting funding for 2 truck radios, and 2 handheld radios, and a 2,000-gallon water tank.
Evans Valley Fire District #6
Request: $200,000
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Capital Campaign to strengthen emergency preparedness and improve access to essential services for rural residents in Evans Valley, Oregon. Therefore, we are retrofitting our current facility and adding a community resource center that is ADA accessible as a public meeting or training space to serve seniors, people with disabilities, and residents with mobility limitations to participate in safety, health, and preparedness programs.
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs
Request: $150,000
We would like to repair our wildfire water protection system and develop a reliable water source for wildfire fighting. We have some of the infrastructure but it needs repair and updating: a storage tank and pump system supplies a single hydrant on the property at this time. That system needs to be inspected and repaired.
Walker Range Forest Protection Association
Request: $30,000
Our headquarters are older and our current heating system is wood heat. Adequate heating and cooling are not something we currently have. This project completes the third phase of our resiliency plan by providing uninterrupted electrical service at our headquarters, ensuring continuous emergency communications and agency operations during power outages and disasters.
North Pendleton RFPA
Request: $75,000
We request $75,000 to finance a new-to-us Brush truck purchase and associated pumps, hoses and fittings. So far in 2026, North Pendleton RFPA has responded to one large fire at over 8,000 acres, and two mutual aid requests that were less than 10 acres. No structures were lost thus far. Response vehicles to fires this year have all been farmer or rancher owned vehicles or tractors, which are not equipped for fighting fires.
Warner Valley RFPA
Request: $30,000
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The Warner Valley Rural Fire Protection Association is requesting funding to purchase a Caterpillar D5 or D6 high-drive, enclosed-cab bulldozer to increase safety and strengthen wildfire response across more than 1.3 million acres surrounding the communities of Adel and Plush in southeastern Oregon.
Jackson County Community LTRG / Rogue Valley COAD
Request: $30,000
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Jackson County Community Long Term Recovery Group requests $30,000 in bridge funding to sustain staff and operating expenses that support Rogue Valley Community Organizations Active in Disaster, RV COAD. RV COAD staff support member organizations before disasters by providing training, tools, planning support, partner coordination, and shared resources.
Prospect Rural Fire District
Request: $20,000
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We have leads on used water tenders from other fire districts, and would love to find a new or nearly new vehicle that could be customized to fit our particular need, rugged gravel roads, steep forest roads with little access or egress. Without the Prospect RFPD, the nearest fire response would be 30–45 minutes away, placing the community at even greater risk.
Fields/Andrews RFPA
Request: $20,000
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We are requesting funds to purchase a Utility Terrain Vehicle (UTV, similar to a side-by-side or SxS) and trailer for accessing remote fires within our district. Currently we have several engines that are not capable of getting to these hard to reach places. South East Oregon has some very remote areas with challenging terrain.
South Gilliam County RFPD
Request: $79,295
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Lake Chinook Fire and Rescue is currently operating with outdated radio communications equipment. These outdated radios make interoperability with mutual aid partners extremely difficult. Lake Chinook Fire and Rescue often has catastrophic wildfire requiring extensive mutual aid with local, state and federal partners.
Lake Chinook Fire and Rescue
Request: $62,123
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Lake Chinook Fire and Rescue is currently operating with outdated radio communications equipment. These outdated radios make interoperability with mutual aid partners extremely difficult. Lake Chinook Fire and Rescue often has catastrophic wildfire requiring extensive mutual aid with local, state and federal partners.
Elsie-Vinemaple RFPD
Request: $135,000
Our district operates on just over $100,000 in annual tax revenue, responding to just shy of 300 calls for service per year and operating brush rigs that are 18 and 32 years old. This grant fund would allow our district to purchase a newer, safer, better equipped wildland fire apparatus to protect both our community and our neighboring forest land.
Canyonville South Umpqua Fire District
Request: $6,000
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Requesting funding for wildland packs for shelters, and water. All of our current wildland packs have been restitched and fixed numerous times, and are still falling apart. We are looking at purchasing new mystery ranch wildland packs for each active member of the department to better equip our volunteers with life saving equipment that functions and is up to date.
Vale Rangeland Fire Protection District
Request: $42,000
The Vale Rangeland Fire Protection Association (RFPA) is requesting disaster‑resilience funding to purchase and outfit a road grader that will be used to create and maintain fire breaks across rangeland protection area. The region faces increasingly severe wildfire seasons, and the ability to rapidly construct and reinforce fire breaks is one of the most effective tools we have to keep rangeland fires small, protect rural communities, and prevent large‑scale disasters.
Climate and Wildfire Institute
Request: $25,000
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Climate & Wildfire Institute (CWI) and Grassroots Wildland Firefighters (GWF) propose the Wildland Fire Workforce Capacity Analysis Project—a first-of-its-kind effort to assess the wildfire workforce in Oregon and provide necessary data- and expert insight-driven policy recommendations to re-envision its future.
City of Cascade Locks
Request: $400,000
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A landslide occurred near Ruckel Falls that is blocking the Historic Highway State Trail, and no agency has the funding to address.
During the December rain event, the hillside above the Historic Highway State Trail slid and covered the Trail in ~12 feet of material (mud, rocks, trees) over 100 yards wide.
Oregon’s 29 Rangeland Fire Protection Associations
Request: $232,000
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The Rangeland Fire Protection program is seeking $232,000 in private funding for RFPAs to purchase tires and wheels, one of the single largest expenses shared by all RFPAs and with the biggest impact on safety and effectiveness.
Wheeler County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD)
Request: $45,000
Wheeler County had an unprecedented wildfire season in 2024, like many other areas. A total of approximately 147,675ac burned (~14%) amongst 7 separate mega-fire incidents, not including the smaller fires responded solely by local volunteers. Funding through this proposal will be used for the high-priority need of purchasing forty Bendix King (BK) Radios to be immediately used across fire response agencies in Wheeler County.