WCAA Walker Firewise

 

A new grant for 2026/27 has been announced.

Find out if you are eligible, contact  us:

walkerfirewise@gmail.com

602-370-8020

 

       
     
       
       
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Walker Firewise Documents
 2025 Walker Firewise Action Plan
Walker Community Assessment
The Walker Forest Stewardship Plan		    
       
  Can Your Home Survive A Wildland Fire?
 Assess Your Own Property (pdf)
    
 
Your WCAA Walker Firewise committee is constantly on the lookout for grant funding and other means to assist Walker property owners to help improve their properties for wildfire protection and to improve overall forest health.

Our Walker forest is currently overstocked as a result of natrural fire suppression for over 150 years. The result is our current unhealthy forest condition.

The Forest Service is doing their part. Do a search for "Hassayampa Restoration Project". This project is the reason for the trees marked with orange paint. Those are the trees to keep and not be removed.

As property owners, we must do our part to regain a healthier forest which will reduce the intensity of a wildland fire and reduce the likelyhood of a new full-scale bark beetle attact exacerbated by the current drought.
    
       
  2025/26 Title III Grant
A federal grant administered by Yavapai County		    
  This was a $5,125.00 grant used to help pay for Walker's 2025 Chip & Haul program.    
       
  CURRENT ACTIVE MITIGATION GRANT
HFI 23-353		    
  This is a federal grant administered by Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management
Contact Walkerfirewise@gmail.com to see if your parcel qualifies for grant reimbursemt to reduce wildfire risk on your Walker property.
    
  HFI 23-353 GRANT RULES    
 
1.  The acreage must not have had federal grant funds used for mitigation in the past.
2.  A current Wildfire Risk Assessment (free) must be performed with property owner in attendance.
3.  Maximum Reimbursement Amount per acre treated is $2,300.80.
4.  A minimum of two bids from qualified contractors must be obtained.
5.  Property owner is responsible for obtaining bids & hiring the work done.
6.  The property owner may not be their own contractor for reimbursement.
7.  The project when completed must reflect the prescription presented on the Wildfire Risk Assessment.
8.   A post assessment must be performed before final payment is paid to contractor.
9.   Proofs of payment must be submitted (front & rear of checks or credit card info)
10. Contractor must provide an invoice marked "Paid in Full".
11. Cash payments to contractors will not be reimbursed.
12. Reimbursement may take as long as 120+ days. (Typically 50 - 90 days)		    
       
  NRCS - EQIP Projects
Natural Resources Conservation Service - Environmental Quality Incentive Program		    
  Round 1 -  Now closed

Round 2 - Now closed

Round 3 - Project was scheduled to close November 2025 (This may be extended due to the recent government shutdown?)

ATTENTION!
If you would be interested in a new round of mitigation projects. Contact us now to be included. It is necessary that we have a list of properties seriously committed in order to apply for either conservation projects or mitigation grants.
 		   
  Contact us: walkerfirewise@gmail.com
Walker Community Action Alliance
P.O. Box 25202
Prescott Valley, 86312
602-370-8020
updated12/01/2025