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Public Awareness Infographic
This infographic breaks down the public awareness and understanding of wildfires and the FireSmart BC Program.
Plant Program 2023 Supercut
If you don't know your plants, you could be planting wildfire hazards.
FireSmart BC Education Program – Grades 4-6
Below you’ll find the FireSmart BC Education Program lesson guides and lesson plans for Grade 4 through 6. The lesson guides are designed to help educators bring wildfire awareness and preparedness into the classroom in a flexible, accessible way. Each guide offers a modular approach, allowing lessons to be taught as stand-alone activities or as part of a broader learning sequence. They also include suggestions for adapting content to different learning environments, whether in traditional classrooms, outdoor spaces, or through land-based learning connections, so educators can tailor the lessons to best support their students and community context.
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: What helpful habits could improve wildfire safety and prevention?
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
Below you’ll find the FireSmart BC Education Program lesson guides and lesson plans for Grade 7 through 9. The lesson guides are designed to help educators bring wildfire awareness and preparedness into the classroom in a flexible, accessible way. Each guide offers a modular approach, allowing lessons to be taught as stand-alone activities or as part of a broader learning sequence. They also include suggestions for adapting content to different learning environments, whether in traditional classrooms, outdoor spaces, or through land-based learning connections, so educators can tailor the lessons to best support their students and community context.
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
FireSmart BC Education Program – Grades 10-12
Below you’ll find the FireSmart BC Education Program lesson guides and lesson plans for Grades 10 through 12. The lesson guides are designed to help educators bring wildfire awareness and preparedness into the classroom in a flexible, accessible way. Each guide offers a modular approach, allowing lessons to be taught as stand-alone activities or as part of a broader learning sequence. They also include suggestions for adapting content to different learning environments, whether in traditional classrooms, outdoor spaces, or through land-based learning connections, so educators can tailor the lessons to best support their students and community context.
Lesson one: What are the most significant impacts of climate change on wildfires?
Lesson two: How can FireSmart landscaping be used to mitigate wildfires in your community?
Lesson three: To what degree are wildfires helpful or harmful to the health of ecosystems?
Lesson four: What could individuals do to personally mitigate the causes and impacts of wildfires?
Lesson five: What could communities do to effectively mitigate the causes and impacts of wildfires?
FireSmart 2023 International Women’s Day
This International Women's Day, meet some of the female leaders making a difference in their communities, conducting the latest research, fighting wildfires, and spreading the message of FireSmart every day.
Landscaping Brochure
This brochure breaks down simple tips on how you can do FireSmart landscaping around your property.
Annual Report
This document contains the FireSmart BC 2022 Annual Report.
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.
Hudson’s Hope – Building a Wildfire Resilient Community
This is the story of a small-town community who, in the face of wildfire evacuations, has prepared themselves and worked together to become resilient to the threat of wildfire.
One Island Lake Neighbourhood Feature
As a small community in northern BC, One Island Lake doesn’t have all the wildfire resources of larger cities and towns. So, as an at-risk rural area, being FireSmart has the potential to save the place they call home. Find out the steps they’re taking to get FireSmart before fire strikes.
Little Qualicum River Village Neighbourhood Feature
After a regional district study found Little Qualicum River Village had the highest wildfire risk of the entire region, the local residents banded together to become a FireSmart neighbourhood.
LFR Portal Instructions
