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FireSmart BC Landscaping Guide

This Guide provides easy steps to create wildfire resilient landscaping and reduce the wildfire risk on 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. 

FireSmart BC Homeowner's Manual

This online interactive 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.

FireSmart Canada Guide to Landscaping

FireSmart Lansdcaping guide provides homeowners with the best landscaping practices to reduce wildfire risk around their home, from plant selection to landscape design.

FireSmart Begins At Home Manual

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

FireSmart Home Development Guide

This guide provides information on FireSmart building design, construction, and materials to help create wildfire-resistant homes.

Wildfire Preparedness Guide

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

Last-Minute Checklists to Protect your Home and Property from Wildfire

FireSmart Last minute checklist

Last-minute wildfire evacuation checklist to protect your home and property from wildfire.

SIFCo Wildfire Evacuation Checklist

Last-minute wildfire evacuation checklist to protect your family and home.

FireSmart Home Ignition Zones Poster

Provides simple steps to reduce the wildfire risk in the FireSmart Home Ignition Zones. 

BCWS Wildfire Rank system

BC Wildfire Service uses a ranking scale from 1 to 6 to quickly describe fire behaviour based on a set of visual indicators.