Guides & Manuals

This manual provides easy steps to make your property FireSmart, while also covering how wildfires grow and spread, and the bigger picture of creating FireSmart communities.

This printable, PDF version of the FireSmart BC Homeowner's Manual provides easy steps to make your property FireSmart, while also covering how wildfires grow and spread, and the bigger picture of creating FireSmart communities.

By making some strategic choices in your yard, you can increase the wildfire resiliency of your property. This guide includes an extensive list of fire-resistant plants, as well as tips on how to create a FireSmart™ landscape around your property.

Producers face unique challenges from wildfire. Use the Farm/Ranch Wildfire Plan guide and workbook to develop a preparedness plan that’s customized for your specific operational needs.

This guide will help you prepare your household, protect your property and understand what to do if a wildfire is close to your community.

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.

This 32 page manual outlines the FireSmart program and how each homeowner can make their property and neighbourhood FireSmart.

Wildfire-resilience best-practice checklist for home construction, renovation and landscaping in wildland urban interface areas of Canada.