Federal Emergency Management Agency · Public Facilities · Disaster Resilience
Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG)
Funds fire department equipment, training, wellness programs, and vehicles. Career, combination, and volunteer fire departments and EMS organizations directly eligible.
Program facts
- Typical award
- $50K – $10M
- Non-federal match
- 10% (approximate)
- Audience
- Cities, towns, counties, and tribal governments
- Application window
- Annual NOFO; typically opens late winter.
- Typical prep time
- 6–12 weeks
- Statutory authority
- Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act §33 (15 U.S.C. §2229)
Catalog entry last verified 2026-05-24 · Verify on the agency page →
Eligibility at a glance
- Cities are eligible applicants.
Match scales 5-15% based on jurisdiction population. Amounts and timing approximate; verify directly with administering agency.
How Strategic Pursuit scores this program
When you run a city dossier, Strategic Pursuit cross-checks the city's demographics, federal award history, disaster history, and CEJST burden categories against this program's eligibility and strategic-fit signals. You see an explicit eligibility / strategic / competitive grade — backed by source citations — instead of a generic "match" badge.
Planning purposes only. Award ranges, match percentages, and application windows on this page summarize the latest publicly available agency guidance and are approximate. Always verify the binding NOFO on the administering agency's page before applying.