Funding Resources

For all information regarding Community Resiliency Investment (CRI), and the three streams.

FireSmart door hangers provide Local FireSmart Representatives and Wildfire Mitigation Specialists a quick checklist to leave for homeowners.

This link contains the Crown Land Wildfire Risk Reduction Planning Guide as well as other supporting documents and templates.

If you have a FireSmart project in progress then you can use this customizable sign. Please refer to the template guide for instructions on how you can make your own customizations.

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.

Applications are currently closed for the 2021 program. The application deadline was October 9, 2020. The Community Resiliency Investment (CRI) program was announced by the provincial government in 2018 and is intended to reduce the risk of wildfires and mitigate their impacts on BC communities.

The following items have been approved as standard FireSmart® BC promotional items. Purchasing of these items is to be done through Queen’s Printer only.

The FireSmartBC Information Sheet was developed to provide an overview of resources, training, and materials available.

The key to the success of the FireSmart Canada Neighbourhood Recognition Program (FCNRP) are the Local FireSmart Representatives (LFR). This document outlines the requirements for FireSmartBC Facilitators.

This package should be completed by a BC FireSmart Committee (BCFSC) Facilitator Trainer before a Local FireSmart Representative (LFR) can be considered an LFR Facilitator in BC. This package outlines the BCFSC LFR Train the Trainer program.

As part of the Community Resiliency Investment (CRI) program, there is potential for homeowners to be compensated for performing FireSmart activities on residential property or homes.