Guides & Manuals

This guide outlines practical, easy-to-follow tips to help you build and maintain a wildfire-resilient deck—from the materials you use to how you manage the space underneath. Every action makes a difference. By taking small steps now, you can help protect your home, your family, and your community.

This list of recommendations is intended to guide drinking water system infrastructure assessments for vulnerability to wildfire. These types of assessments may be funded through the UBCM-administered FireSmart Community Funding and Supports, under the eligible activities.

The FireSmart BC Brand Guidelines provide clear standards for using logos, colours, fonts, and imagery to ensure consistent and recognizable representation of the FireSmart BC brand across all communications.

Educate your residents on how they can help to support structure protection efforts ahead of a wildfire event by applying FireSmart principles to their homes and properties. This brochure covers information about the BC Wildfire Service Structure Protection program and sprinkler and FireSmart best practices.

This guide outlines how each homeowner or resident can make their property and neighbourhood FireSmart.

Get prepared with a customized Wildfire Plan using the Farm & Ranch Wildfire Preparedness Guide & Workbook.

Farmers and ranchers sometimes face special challenges when using open burns to clear grass and stubble, debris piles and windrows. To help conduct your open burn safely, please follow the tips in this factsheet.

Your comprehensive guide to all the FireSmart BC terms, concepts and acronyms.

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.

Use these resources to determine your Cultural Sites or Green Space’s preparedness for wildfire.

This quick reference guide was put together for those considering installing their own structure protection sprinkler systems on their homes and property. Installing structure protection sprinklers on your home and property requires knowledge and expertise and is not without risk; FireSmart BC does not recommend that residents and property owners install their own structure protection sprinkler systems. Following FireSmart guidelines and principles around your home and property are the first steps anyone should take before considering a structure protection sprinkler.

This document outlines FireSmartBC's social media objectives and best practices across various platforms.

This guide equips FireSmart Coordinators with knowledge and guidance to implement FireSmart principles in local government's Development Permit Areas.

From community workshops to collaborative clean-up events, below are outreach opportunities for people involved in the FireSmart network.

This document offers seasonal recommendations and design examples for firewood sheds to help reduce the risk of fire. For detailed guidance, refer to the Firewood Shed Assessment and follow FireSmart guidelines to implement effective fire prevention measures in the Home Ignition Zones: Immediate, Intermediate, and Extended.

Download this "Planning a FireSmart Presentation - Considerations" Document which outlines the best courses of action in preparing, building, and presenting a FireSmart presentation.