New Jersey is providing funding to homeowner groups and communities to assist them prevent wildfires.Many of them are located in the Pinelands region, where a wildfire in April 2025 destroyed about 15,000 acres.In order to promote wildfire risk-reduction initiatives, the state Forest Fire Service announced on Thursday that it is awarding grants totaling $90,000 to 22 municipalities throughout the state.Funded communities are situated in what the state refers to as its “high-risk wildland-urban interface,” or places where human activity and forest lands coexist. The Forest Fire Service’s Firewise towns program has authorized an action plan for these towns.