This document contains information and frequently asked questions about The FireSmart BC Wildfire Mitigation Program (WMP) which is designed to engage residents in voluntary wildfire mitigation activities by offering a professional home assessment with property-specific recommendations to aid in reducing risk to wildfire.
This document is created for nurseries, garden centres, growers, and FireSmart™ Coordinators to help kickstart the FireSmart Plant Program in your community.
Use these resources to determine your Cultural Sites or Green Space’s preparedness for wildfire.
If you are part of a First Nations or local government community and are interested in ensuring that your community is supporting effective FireSmart activities that will increase your community’s resiliency to wildfire, this document will assist you in forming a Community FireSmart and Resiliency Collaborative (CFRC).
This template is provided as an example of a Terms of Reference, please edit and adjust to suit your specific needs and goals.
The course will introduce you to the key concepts, players, risk reduction strategies, and funding opportunities that help to minimize the negative impacts of wildfires in our province.
No two journeys are the same, this road map is provided to help local governments and First Nations understand where to start and what steps to take on the way to community wildfire resiliency.
What is it? A literacy program to help children understand wildfires in British Columbia and how they can help create more resilient communities.
For all information regarding Community Resiliency Investment (CRI), and the three streams.
This link contains the Crown Land Wildfire Risk Reduction Planning Guide as well as other supporting documents and templates.
This mail-out template provides FireSmart partners a quick and easy way to send out mail to their communities. Use the Mail-out Guide for instructions on how you can customize the template to suit your needs.
Agriculture faces unique challenges from wildfire. Farmers, ranchers, First Nations and governments can all take simple steps to prepare ahead of time.
Wildfire season might be coming to a close but COVID-19 is here to stay in the meantime. FireSmart is a shared responsibility that requires your attention even while we’re social distancing, washing our hands and being kind, calm and safe.
FireSmart depends on partners all across our province - and country - that are organizing initiatives to make their communities safer. Here are stories submitted by our partners on how they're utilizing CRI funding to prepare and take action.
The FireSmart Critical Infrastructure (CI) Hazard Assessment Form is a numerically ranked process that is intended for assessing vulnerability of systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the healthy, safety, security or economic well being of British Columbians and the effective functioning of government.