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State Fire Marshal’s Information

The State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO) participates in and coordinates with local fire departments in an integrated statewide network designed to protect human life from fire and explosions through fire prevention, investigation and public education activities. The network includes the following bureaus from the State Fire Marshal’s Office; the Code Enforcement Bureau, the Fire Support Bureau, the Fire Investigations Bureau and the Fire Training Academy. With methods of preventing and reducing fire losses promoted through code enforcement building inspections, fire prevention community outreach and Public Protection Classification oversight via ISO, the SFMO seeks to create communities well-prepared to protect themselves against fires.

Please click here to access the 2020 Annual Statistics of Fires in New Mexico.

New Mexico Counties 2022-2023 Wildfire Risk Reduction Program for Rural Communities

New Mexico Counties is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Wildfire Risk Reduction Program for Rural Communities. The grant program assists at-risk communities throughout New Mexico in reducing their risk from wildland fire on non-federal lands. Funding for this program is provided by the National Fire Plan through the Department of the Interior/Bureau of Land Management for communities in the wildland-urban interface and is intended to directly benefit communities that may be impacted by wildland fire initiating from or spreading to BLM public land.

Funding categories include:

• CWPP updates up to $20,000/project
• Education and outreach activities up to $15,000/project
• Hazardous fuels reduction projects up to $75,000/project

Please click here to access NM Counties Programs