2026 Joint Fire Science Program Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Announcements
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) funding opportunities for fiscal year 2026 are open until September 18th, 2025. JFSP will continue to support the Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Award program, and JFSP is accepting applications to continue the regional fire science exchange programs in the California, Great Plains, Lake States, Southern, Southern Rockies, and Tallgrass Prairie FSEN regions. In addition, JFSP is seeking proposals that address the following three research areas:
Accelerating science to action in fire-prone ecosystems with changing fire regimes: Promoting innovation in fire management through knowledge exchange and place-based partnerships
Research to support wildland fire investigations
Evaluation of operational fire potential forecasts
Primary NOFO
Task Statement 1: Accelerating science to action in fire-prone ecosystems with changing fire regimes: Spurring innovation in fire management through knowledge exchange and place-based partnerships
The objective of this task statement is to strengthen partnerships among scientists, practitioners, managers, and other interested parties to accelerate the identification and adoption of science-based management strategies that facilitate innovative solutions to changing fire regimes.
Task Statement 2: Evaluation of operational fire potential forecasts
The objective of this task statement is to support improved fire potential forecast products through inventory and objective evaluation of existing tools and resources.
Task Statement 3: Research to support wildland fire investigations
The objective of this task statement is to support research that will strengthen the scientific basis for evidence used in wildland fire origin and cause investigations.
Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) Award
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) invites current master and doctoral students enrolled at colleges or universities within the US in the field of wildland fire and related physical, biological, and social sciences to apply for a Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) award. The purpose of a GRIN award is to enhance student exposure to the management and policy relevance of their research to achieve beneficial outcomes of funded work. Specific objectives related to management are to enhance student exposure to and interaction with fire and fuels managers, develop appreciation and understanding of fire and fuels managers information and research needs, and augment already planned and funded master or doctoral research to develop information and/or products useful to managers.
Regional Science Exchange NOFO
The objective of this task statement is to solicit proposals to lead and execute a particular regional fire science exchange for a period of two years. The JFSP funds and provides oversight to a national collaborative of 15 regional wildland fire science exchanges: the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN). The FSEN provides the most relevant, current wildland fire science information to federal, state, local, tribal, and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions. The FSEN brings fire, fuel, natural resource, and land managers, practitioners, and scientists together to address regional wildland fire management needs and challenges. This solicitation is seeking individual proposals (i.e., each proposal must be specific to one region) for the following six regions of the FSEN: California, Great Plains, Lake States, Southern, Southern Rockies and Tallgrass Prairie.
