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
Wx Comment
AL Ma-Chis Lower Creek Indian Tribe 10/01 - 03/15 06/01 - 09/30     year-round year-round  
AL Mowa Band of Choctaw year-round year-round     year-round    
AL Poarch Band of Creek Indians 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round  
AL United Cherokee Ani'Yun'Wiya Nation 10/01 - 05/31 06/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 05/31 10/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round  
AK Aleutian/Pribilof Islands Association 11/01 - 04/30   11/01-04/30        
AK Aniak Traditional Council 10/01-04/30   01/01-04/30        
AK Association of Village Council Presidents year-round   10/01 - 05/31     year-round  
AK Bristol Bay Native Association year-round   year-round     year-round  
AK Chuathbakuk Traditional Council year-round   10/01 - 04/31        
AK Cook Inlet Tribal Council year-round       year-round year-round  
AK Kenaitze Indian Tribe year-round     year-round year-round    
AK Orutsararmiut Native Council year-round       year-round year-round  
AK Seldovia Village Tribe year-round       year-round    
AK Sitka Tribe of Alaska year-round       year-round year-round  
AK Tanana Dena'Nena'Henash year-round year-round       year-round  
AK Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority 11/01 - 06/30   11/01 - 06/30        
AK Yakutat Tlingit Tribe 10/01 - 09/30     10/01 - 09/30      
AZ 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.
AZ Colorado River Indian Tribes 10/01 - 03/31 04/24 - 09/30     year-round year-round  
AZ Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community year-round year-round     year-round    
AZ Navajo Nation (AZ-MN-UT) year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round Dates of operation will be based on availability of carryover funds.
AZ Pasqua Yaqui Tribe year-round year-round     year-round    
AZ Quechan Indian Tribe 10/01 - 03/15 04/01 - 09/30     year-round    
AZ Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community year-round year-round year-round year-round      
AZ San Carlos Apache Tribe 10/01 - 03/31   10/01 - 03/31        
AZ White Mountain Apache Tribe 10/08 - 03/15 05/02 - 08/31     10/01 - 09/27    
CA Berry Creek Rancheria of Maidu Indians of California year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round    
CA Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians year-round year-round     year-round    
CA Bishop Paiute Tribe 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 08/31     year-round year-round  
CA Enterprise Rancheria year-round year-round     year-round    
CA Hoopa Valley Tribe 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30     year-round    
CA Hopland Band of Pomo Indians year-round year-round year-round     year-round  
CA Karuk Tribe year-round year-round     year-round year-round  
CA Mooretown Rancheria 10/01 - 03/15 03/16 - 09/30     year-round    
CA Northern California Indian Development Council year-round year-round     year-round    
CA Pinoleville Pomo Nation 10/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round year-round year-round  
CA Pit River Tribe 10/01 - 09/30 year-round     year-round    
CA Quartz Valley Indian Reservation year-round       year-round    
CA Redding Rancheria 10/01 - 03/30 04/01 - 09/30     year-round    
CA Riverside-San Bernardino Indian Co. Health, Inc year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
CA Round Valley Indian Tribes year-round year-round year-round year-round      
CA Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 12/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 year-round    
CA Southern Indian Health Council, Inc. year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round    
CA Yurok Tribe year-round       year-round    
ID Coeur d'Alene Tribe 10/01 - 05/31 06/01 - 09/30       year-round Dates coincide with the State of Idaho.
ID Nez Perce Tribe 10/01 - 03/01 03/01 - 09/30     year-round    
ID Shoshone Bannock Tribes 10/01 - 04/30 07/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/15 07/01 - 09/30 year-round    
KS United Tribes of Kansas & SE Nebraska year-round     year-round      
ME Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians 10/01 - 04/30         year-round  
ME Mi'kmaq Nation year-round   year-round   10/01 - 07/31 year-round I had checked off both "Winter Crisis Assistance" and "Year Round Crisis Assistance". There is a real need for year round crisis assistance as our clients need assistance to catch up their exorbitant winter electric bills through the summer months so they have the electricity available for the upcoming winter to run their furnaces. The State of Maine has a moratorium on winter disconnects that often leaves our clients behind or under disconnects come warmer weather. We do not do cooling assistance as the need is not very great here in Northern Maine.
ME Passamaquoddy Tribe - Indian Township year-round       year-round    
ME Passamaquoddy Tribe - Pleasant Point year-round       year-round year-round  
ME Penobscot Indian Nation year-round       year-round    
MA Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Tribal Council 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 year-round    
MI Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
MI Inter-Tribal Council of MI, Inc. year-round       year-round year-round  
MI Keweenaw Bay Indian Community year-round       year-round    
MI Little River Band of Ottawa Indians year-round       year-round year-round  
MI 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    
MI Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians 11/01 - 09/30 06/01 - 09/30     11/01 - 09/30 11/01 - 09/30  
MS Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians year-round year-round          
MT Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes (Fort Peck) 10/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 09/30     year-round year-round Heating: All individual desiring to participate in LIHEAP will fill out an application form to determine eligibility prior to receiving
regular benefits.
Cooling Assistance: Qualified households can apply for assistance to help relieve hot temperatures. 
Winter Crisis: Which we refer to as emergency assistance, repairs/replace furnace, heaters, 
Year-round crisis: ECIP household in a crisis getting disconnected. 
Weatherization: Assistance with minor home repairs to save energy.
MT Blackfeet Tribal Business Council 10/01 - 04/30       year-round year-round  
MT Chippewa Cree Tribe year-round year-round     year-round year-round  
MT Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes 11/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 08/31   year-round  
MT Fort Belknap Indian Community 10/01 - 04/30 06/01 - 09/30     year-round year-round  
MT Northern Cheyenne Tribe year-round       year-round    
NJ Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Indians of New Jersey year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round    
NM Jicarilla Apache Nation year-round year-round   year-round   year-round  
NM Pueblo of Jemez year-round 03/13 - 09/30     year-round year-round  
NM Pueblo of Laguna Utility Authority 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30      
NM Pueblo of Nambe 10/01 - 05/31   year-round year-round year-round    
NM Pueblo of Zuni 10/01 - 03/15 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30 year-round    
NY Seneca Nation of Indians 11/01 - 03/17   01/03 - 03/17 05/01 - 09/30   11/01 - 09/30  
NY St. Regis Mohawk Tribe 11/01 - 03/15 06/02 - 08/29          
NC Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians 10/01 - 03/31       10/01 - 03/31    
NC Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina 10/15 - 11/01 06/02 - 06/15     year-round year-round  
ND Spirit Lake Tribe (Devil's Lake Res.) 10/01 - 05/31 05/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 04/30 year-round year-round year-round  
ND Standing Rock Sioux year-round year-round year-round     year-round  
ND Three Affiliated Tribes 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10 01/10    
ND Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians 10/01 - 06/30 year-round   year-round   year-round  
OK Absentee Shawnee Tribe 11/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30     year-round    
OK Alabama-Quassarte 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30     year-round    
OK Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma 10/01 - 12/31 06/01 - 07/31     01/01 - 09/30    
OK Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes 10/01-03/31 04/01-09/30 10/01-03/31 04/01-09/30   year-round  
OK Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma year-round year-round year-round year-round   year-round  
OK Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma year-round year-round year-round year-round      
OK Citizen Potawatomi Nation 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30 year-round year-round  
OK Comanche Nation of Oklahoma 10/01-06/30 07/01-09/30     year-round    
OK Delaware Nation 10/01-04/14 4/15-09/30     year-round    
OK Delaware Tribe of Indians 10/01-03/15 05/15-08/21   05/15-08/21   year-round  
OK Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01-03/01 03/02-09/30     year-round    
OK Fort Sill Apache Tribe 10/01-05/31 06/01-09/30 12/22 - 03/20 06/20 - 09/22      
OK Kaw Nation 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30     year-round year-round  
OK Kialegee Tribal Town 12/01-05/01 06/01-08/31     year-round    
OK Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma year-round year-round year-round year-round      
OK Kiowa Tribe 12/01 - 03/31 06/01 - 08/31 year-round year-round year-round    
OK Miami Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round  
OK Muscogee (Creek) Nation 11/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30 11/01 - 03/31 05/01 - 09/30      
OK Osage Nation 11/01 - 03/30 04/01 - 08/30     year-round    
OK Otoe - Missouria Tribe year-round year-round year-round year-round      
OK Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma year-round year-round     year-round    
OK Pawnee Tribe year-round year-round     year-round    
OK Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01 - 03/31 06/01 - 08/31 04/01 - 05/31 09/01 - 09/30 year-round    
OK Quapaw Tribe  09/13 - 03/14 03/15 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/14 06/01 - 09/30 year-round    
OK Sac and Fox Tribe of Oklahoma 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30 10/01-04/30 05/01-09/30   year-round  
OK Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 11/18 - 04/30 06/23 - 09/30     year-round    
OK Seneca Cayuga Tribe year-round year-round     year-round    
OK Shawnee Tribe 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30      
OK Thlopthlocco Tribal Town year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round    
OK United Keetoowah  year-round year-round year-round year-round   year-round  
OK Wichita and Affiliated Tribes 01/06 - 03/31 06/02 - 09/26     12/16 - 09/26    
OK Wyandotte Nation 12/01 - 03/15 07/01 - 09/30     year-round    
OR Confederated Tribes of Coos Lower Umpqua  year-round year-round     year-round year-round  
OR Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians year-round   year-round   year-round    
OR Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde  year-round year-round       year-round  
OR Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs year-round year-round 10/01 - 03/31 06/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round  
OR Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians year-round year-round     year-round    
OR Klamath Tribes 10/01 - 05/31 06/01 - 09/30 year-round 06/01 - 09/30 year-round year-round  
RI Narragansett Indian Tribe 10/01 - 03/15 06/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 03/15 06/01 - 09/30   year-round  
SC Catawba Indian Nation 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30 01/01 - 09/30    
SD Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe 12/01 - 03/20 04/01 - 08/16 10/01 - 09/14   year-round    
SD Oglala Sioux Tribe year-round year-round     year-round year-round  
SD Rosebud Sioux Tribe year-round   10/01 - 03/31 04/01 - 09/30   year-round  
SD Yankton Sioux year-round       year-round year-round  
UT Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah year-round year-round     year-round    
UT Ute Tribe (Uintah & Ouray) 10/01 - 3/31 04/30-09/30     year-round    
VA Monacan Indian Nation 11/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31 06/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31 11/01 - 08/31  
WA Colville Confederated Tribes 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 07/31 10/01 - 04/30 06/02 - 08/31 year-round 10/01 - 03/31  
WA Hoh Tribe year-round       year-round year-round  
WA Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe year-round   10/01 - 03/31        
WA Kalispel Tribe of Indians year-round year-round     year-round    
WA Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe year-round       year-round    
WA Lummi Indian Tribe year-round   year-round        
WA Makah Indian Tribe year-round year-round     year-round year-round  
WA Muckleshoot Indian Tribe year-round       year-round    
WA Nooksack Indian Tribe year-round       year-round    
WA Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe year-round year-round          
WA Quileute Tribe year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round  
WA Quinault Tribe year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round    
WA Samish Tribe year-round year-round     year-round year-round  
WA Small Tribes Organization of Western Washington year-round       year-round    
WA South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency year-round year-round     year-round    
WA Spokane Tribe 10/01 - 04/30 05/01 - 09/30     year-round    
WA Suquamish Indian Tribe  year-round year-round year-round year-round      
WA Swinomish Indians year-round       year-round    
WA Yakama Indian Nation year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round year-round Summer Crisis occurs when a household is cooling their home and utilizes majority of household income for payment which is a high burden. Winter Crisis occurs when a household is heating their home and uses majority of the household income for payment which is a high burden. Year round crisis occurs when a household has their energy bill and burdens the household by the bill amount. 
WY Eastern Shoshone of the Wind River year-round   year-round        
WY Northern Arapaho Tribe year-round       year-round    

Source: FY 2025 Tribal LIHEAP Plans.