Community FireSmart and Resiliency Committee Guidance

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 Committee (CFRC).

FireSmart BC Education Program – Grades 4-6

Here you'll find FireSmart BC Education Program lesson plans for Grades 4 to Grade 6.

Lesson one: How can we best use understanding of our local ecozone to make an area FireSmart?

Theme: Fire Science

Lesson two: What are the most important lessons about using fire to care for the land that we can learn from First Peoples?

Theme: Fire Science

Lesson three: How can people in communities best share responsibility for wildfire safety?

Theme: Safety

Lesson four: How related are climate change and wildfires?

Theme: Fire Science

Lesson five: How can people in communities best share responsibility for wildfire safety?

Theme: Safety

FireSmart BC Education Program – Grades 7-9

Here you'll find FireSmart BC Education Program lesson plans for Grades 7 to Grade 9.

Lesson one: How much have wildfires changed?

Theme: Mitigation and prevention

Lesson two: What are the most important effects of prescribed fire on ecosystem health?

Theme: Ecosystem Stewardship

Lesson three: What is the strongest evidence that the current climate crisis is a product of human actions?

Theme: Mitigation and prevention

Lesson four: What important lessons about wildfire prevention and safety could be learned from Indigenous Peoples?

Theme: Ecosystem Stewardship

Lesson five: What are the relationships between colonialism and wildfires?

Theme: Ecosystem Stewardship

Wildfire Resiliency and Training Summit: Sponsorship Opportunities

As the importance of being FireSmart continues to grow in the face of ongoing climate change, the Wildfire Resiliency and Training Summit will provide your organization with unique sponsorship, exhibitor and networking opportunities to showcase how your products, services and expertise have a valuable role to play in keeping communities safe and building fire resiliency across British Columbia.