California Dove Fire Prompts FEMA FM-5652-CA Declaration
FEMA issued declaration FM-5652-CA, a Fire Management Assistance declaration. A Fire Management Assistance declaration is a narrower, fast-authorized category covering firefighting costs for an active wildfire — it does not open the broader post-disaster recovery programs a Major Disaster Declaration does. Fire Management Assistance declarations make up 62% of the 84 FEMA disaster declarations Areazine has tracked (52 of them). Areazine has reported 2 FEMA disaster declarations for California.
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- Declaration type
- Fire Management Assistance
- Declaration code
- FM-5652-CA
- State
- California
- Share of archive
- 62% of 84 declarations
- Source
- FEMA
- Published
- August 8, 2026
A Fire Management Assistance declaration is a narrower, fast-authorized category covering firefighting costs for an active wildfire — it does not open the broader post-disaster recovery programs a Major Disaster Declaration does.
Areazine has reported 2 FEMA disaster declarations for California.
Record status: a point-in-time snapshot of the FEMA declaration. Program activations and designated-area lists can be amended after publication, so check FEMA's own declaration page for the current, authoritative scope.
What Happened
FEMA declared FM-5652-CA (Fire Management) for the Dove Fire incident beginning July 26, 2026, in California.
Affected Areas
Tuolumne (County) is the designated area.
Federal Assistance Available
Public Assistance was declared. Individual Assistance, Hazard Mitigation, and IA programs were not declared.
What You Should Do
Public Assistance is available in the designated area under this declaration.
Source
FEMA disaster declaration FM-5652-CA
Original source: FEMA Official Notice ↗
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