Mississippi Fire on the Forty Prescribed Burn Cost Share

Fire on the Forty pays Mississippi landowners back for prescribed burning on private fields and upland forests. In selected focal counties it covers up to 75% of the cost of a burn, or of work to prepare a site for fire, up to a set rate per acre. It also runs hands-on prescribed-fire workshops.

• Private landowners in Mississippi

• Land must be in one of the program's selected focal counties (focal-county map on the page)

• Fields and upland forests managed with prescribed fire for wildlife habitat

Reimbursement of up to 75% of the cost of prescribed fire (or site prep for fire), up to a maximum per-acre rate. Paid after the work is done.

Published amounts: landowners may be reimbursed for funded projects in selected focal counties for up to 75% of costs for implementing and conducting prescribed fire up to a maximum per acre rate.

Landowners must submit an application to enter the program. Applications are ranked on how much they help wildlife habitat. Ones sent after the deadline are held by the Fire on the Forty Steering Committee until the next funding cycle. The 2027 cycle opens April 1, 2027.

Deadline text on the page: Applications for the 2026 funding cycle has closed. We will begin accepting applications for the next funding cycle April 1, 2027. / Deadline for the 2026 application period closed June 19, 2026.