2025 Micro-Grant Awards

In 2025, the Mendocino County Fire Safe Council partnered with the PG&E Corporation Foundation to award over $150,000 to organizations working to improve wildfire preparedness and resilience around Mendocino County. Twenty applications were funded from fifteen of our affiliated Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils and five local Fire Agencies. The following is a list of grant recipients and their projects.

• Albion Little River FSC Complete fuel reduction for invasive broom

• Black Bart Trail FSC Implement Defensible Space Assessments and Home Hardening programs

• Black Oak Ranch FSC Implement fuel reduction for a summer camp

• Blue Rock FSC Install water tanks

• Cahto FSC Fuel reduction and trash removal

• Comptche Firewise Install water tanks

• Feliz Creek FSC Host a joint Firewise education community event with McNab Firewise

• Hopland FD Purchase fire devices for fighting fire Leggett FPD Purchase handheld radios

• Long Valley FD Defensible Space Assessment program for residents

• McNab Ranch FSC Purchase radios and water tanks

• Piercy FD Purchase an emergency generator for the shelter

• Piercy PSRMA FSC Fuel reduction alongside road

• Point Arena FSC Host a community wildfire prepared event for seniors

• Redwood Valley-Calpella FD Reflective Signs and Radios

• Round Valley FSC Purchase a storage unit for emergency equipment

• Spy Rock Ready FSC Install water tanks

• String Creek FSC Purchase a storage unit for a temporary refuge area

• Surfwood Prepared FSC Community organizing with a project called Map your Neighborhood

• Yorkville Firewise Purchase bulk vent material for home hardening projects