Tribal LIHEAP Program Duration: Heating, Cooling, and Crisis

[Last updated: 3/27/2025]

Link to: State and Territory LIHEAP Program Duration: Heating, Cooling, and Crisis

Note: The table below, based on information from tribes' LIHEAP model plans and additional research by the LIHEAP Clearinghouse, lists planned FY 2025 opening and closing dates for each grant recipient's LIHEAP component. Generally, grant recipients take and process LIHEAP applications during the time periods cited, although the actual application period can vary depending on the amount of funding available. Receipt of LIHEAP emergency contingency funds can also affect the duration of application periods.

STATE TRIBE HEAT COOL Heat
CRISIS
Cool
CRISIS
Year-
Round 
CRISIS
Comment
Alabama Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe 10/01 - 03/15 06/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Alabama Mowa Band of Choctaw year-round year-round     year-round  
Alabama Poarch Band of Creek Indians 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Alabama United Cherokee Ani'Yun'Wiya Nation 10/01 - 05/31 06/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 05/31 10/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Alaska Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association 11/01 - 04/30   11/01-04/30      
Alaska Aniak Traditional Council 10/01-04/30   01/01-04/30      
Alaska Association of Village Council Presidents year-round   10/01 - 05/31      
Alaska Bristol Bay Native Association year-round   year-round      
Alaska Chuathbakuk Traditional Council year-round   10/01 - 04/31      
Alaska Cook Inlet Tribal Council year-round       year-round  
Alaska Kenaitze Indian Tribe year-round     year-round year-round  
Alaska Orutsararmiut Native Council year-round       year-round  
Alaska Seldovia Village Tribe year-round       year-round  
Alaska Sitka Tribe of Alaska year-round       year-round  
Alaska Tanana Dena'Nena'Henash year-round year-round        
Alaska Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority 11/01 - 06/30   11/01 - 06/30      
Alaska Yakutat Tlingit Tribe 10/01 - 09/30     10/01 - 09/30    
Arizona Cocopah Indian Tribe   year-round     year-round We currently do not offer heating assistance. Being located in the Southern part of Arizona we do not get snow and our temperatures range
from 70 - 80 degrees in the winter season. Our summer temperatures range from 90 to 120 degrees. All of our Housing units have central air
conditions and our average monthly expense is now $450.00. due to the climbing cost of power/energy.
Arizona Colorado River Indian Tribes 10/01 - 03/31 04/24 - 09/30     year-round  
Arizona Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community year-round year-round     year-round  
Arizona Navajo Nation (AZ-MN-UT) year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
Arizona Pasqua Yaqui Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
Arizona Quechan Indian Tribe 10/01 - 03/15 04/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Arizona Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Arizona San Carlos Apache Tribe 10/01 - 03/31   10/01 - 03/31      
Arizona White Mountain Apache Tribe 10/08 - 03/15 05/02 - 08/31     10/01 - 09/27  
California Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
California Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians year-round year-round     year-round  
California Bishop Paiute Tribe 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 08/31     year-round  
California Enterprise Rancheria year-round year-round     year-round  
California Hoopa Valley Tribe 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30     year-round  
California Hopland Band of Pomo Indians year-round year-round year-round      
California Karuk Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
California Mooretown Rancheria 10/01 - 03/15 03/16 - 09/30     year-round  
California Northern California Indian Development Council year-round year-round     year-round  
California Pinoleville Pomo Nation 10/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round year-round  
California Pit River Tribe 10/01 - 09/30 year-round     year-round  
California Quartz Valley Indian Reservation year-round       year-round  
California Redding Rancheria 10/01 - 03/30 04/01 - 09/30     year-round  
California Riverside-San Bernardino Indian Co. Health, Inc year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
California Round Valley Indian Tribes year-round year-round year-round year-round    
California Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 12/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 year-round  
California Southern Indian Health Council, Inc. year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
California Yurok Tribe year-round       year-round  
Idaho Coeur d'Alene Tribe 10/01 - 05/31 06/01 - 09/30        
Idaho Nez Perce Tribe 10/01 - 03/01 03/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Idaho Shoshone Bannock Tribes 10/01 - 04/30 07/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/15 07/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Kansas United Tribes of Kansas & SE Nebraska year-round     year-round    
Maine Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians 10/01 - 04/30          
Maine Indian Township year-round       year-round  
Maine Mi'kmaq Nation year-round   year-round   10/01 - 07/31  
Maine Penobscot Indian Nation year-round       year-round  
Maine Pleasant Point year-round       year-round  
Massachusetts Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Michigan Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
Michigan Inter-Tribal Council of MI, Inc. year-round       year-round  
Michigan Keweenaw Bay Indian Community year-round       year-round  
Michigan Little River Band of Ottawa Indians year-round       year-round  
Michigan Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians 11/04 - 06/02 05/01 - 09/30 11/04 - 09/30 11/04 - 09/30 11/04 - 09/30  
Michigan Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians 11/01 - 09/30 06/01 - 09/30     11/01 - 09/30  
Mississippi Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians year-round year-round        
Montana Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes (Fort Peck) 10/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Montana Blackfeet Tribal Business Council 10/01 - 04/30       year-round  
Montana Chippewa Cree Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
Montana Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 11/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 08/31    
Montana Fort Belknap Indian Community 10/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Montana Northern Cheyenne Tribe year-round       year-round  
New Jersey Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
New Mexico Jicarilla Apache Nation year-round year-round   year-round    
New Mexico Pueblo of Jemez year-round 03/13 - 09/30     year-round  
New Mexico Pueblo of Laguna Utility Authority 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30    
New Mexico Pueblo of Nambe 10/01 - 05/31   year-round year-round year-round  
New Mexico Pueblo of Zuni 10/01 - 03/15 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30 year-round  
New York Seneca Nation of Indians 11/01 - 03/17   01/03 - 03/17 05/01 - 09/30    
New York St. Regis Mohawk Tribe 11/01 - 03/15 06/02 - 08/29        
North Carolina Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians 10/01 - 03/31       10/01 - 03/31  
North Carolina Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina 10/15 - 11/01 06/02 - 06/15     year-round  
North Dakota Spirit Lake Tribe (Devil's Lake Res.) 10/01 - 05/31 05/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 04/30 year-round year-round  
North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux year-round year-round year-round      
North Dakota Three Affiliated Tribes 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10  
North Dakota Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians 10/01 - 06/30 year-round   year-round    
Oklahoma Absentee Shawnee Tribe 11/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Alabama-Quassarte 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma 10/01 - 12/31 06/01 - 07/31     01/01 - 09/30  
Oklahoma Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes 10/01-03/31 04/01-09/30 10/01-03/31 04/01-09/30    
Oklahoma Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Oklahoma Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Oklahoma Citizen Potawatomi Nation 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30 year-round  
Oklahoma Comanche Nation of Oklahoma 10/01-06/30 07/01-09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Delaware Nation 10/01-04/14 4/15-09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Delaware Tribe of Indians 10/01-03/15 05/15-08/21   05/15-08/21    
Oklahoma Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01-03/01 03/02-09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Fort Sill Apache Tribe 10/01-05/31 06/01-09/30 12/22 - 03/20 06/20 - 09/22    
Oklahoma Kaw Nation 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Kialegee Tribal Town 12/01-05/01 06/01-08/31     year-round  
Oklahoma Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Oklahoma Kiowa Tribe 12/01 - 03/31 06/01 - 08/31 year-round year-round year-round  
Oklahoma Miami Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek) Nation 11/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30 11/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30    
Oklahoma Osage Nation 11/01 - 03/30 04/01 - 08/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Otoe - Missouria Tribe year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Oklahoma Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma year-round year-round     year-round  
Oklahoma Pawnee Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
Oklahoma Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01 - 03/31 06/01 - 08/31 04/01 - 05/31 09/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Oklahoma Quapaw Tribe  09/13 - 03/14 03/15 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/14 06/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Oklahoma Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30    
Oklahoma Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 11/18 - 04/30 06/23 - 09/30     year-round  
Oklahoma Seneca Cayuga Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
Oklahoma Shawnee Tribe 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30    
Oklahoma Thlopthlocco Tribal Town year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
Oklahoma United Keetoowah  year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Oklahoma Wichita and Affiliated Tribes 01/06 - 03/31 06/02 - 09/26     12/16 - 09/26  
Oklahoma Wyandotte Nation 12/01 - 03/15 07/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Oregon Confederated Tribes of Coos_Lower Umpqua  year-round year-round     year-round  
Oregon Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians year-round   year-round   year-round  
Oregon Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde  year-round year-round        
Oregon Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs year-round year-round 10/01 - 03/31 06/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Oregon Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians year-round year-round     year-round  
Oregon Klamath Tribes 10/01 - 05/31 06/01 - 09/30 year-round 06/01 - 09/30 year-round  
Rhode Island Narragansett Indian Tribe 10/01 - 03/15 06/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/15 06/01 - 09/30    
South Carolina Catawba Indian Nation 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 01/01 - 09/30  
South Dakota Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe 12/01 - 03/20 04/01 - 08/16 10/01 - 09/14   year-round  
South Dakota Oglala Sioux Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
South Dakota Rosebud Sioux Tribe year-round   10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30    
South Dakota Yankton Sioux year-round       year-round  
Utah Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah year-round year-round     year-round  
Utah Ute Tribe (Uintah & Ouray) 10/01 - 3/31 04/30-09/30     year-round  
Virginia Monacan Indian Nation 11/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31 06/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31  
Washington Colville Confederated Tribes 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 07/31 10/01 - 04/30 06/02 - 08/31 year-round  
Washington Hoh Tribe year-round       year-round  
Washington Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe year-round   10/01 - 03/31      
Washington Kalispel Tribe of Indians year-round year-round     year-round  
Washington Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe year-round       year-round  
Washington Lummi Indian Tribe year-round   year-round      
Washington Makah Indian Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
Washington Muckleshoot Indian Tribe year-round       year-round  
Washington Nooksack Indian Tribe year-round       year-round  
Washington Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe year-round year-round        
Washington Quileute Tribe year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
Washington Quinault Tribe year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
Washington Samish Tribe year-round year-round     year-round  
Washington Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington year-round       year-round  
Washington South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency year-round year-round     year-round  
Washington Spokane Tribe 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30     year-round  
Washington Suquamish Indian Tribe  year-round year-round year-round year-round    
Washington Swinomish Indians year-round       year-round  
Washington Yakama Indian Nation year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
Wyoming Eastern Shoshone of the Wind River year-round   year-round      
Wyoming Northern Arapaho Tribe year-round       year-round  

Source: FY 2025 Tribal LIHEAP Plans.