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The risk of wildland fires are growing. Whether you are a homeowner, resident, business, government, or community, you can take small steps that will have lasting impacts. Visit FireSmartCanada.ca to learn how to reduce your wildland fire risk.
🌲 The wildland urban interface or WUI is where development meets or intermingles with nature.
Understanding how vegetation and structures interact is a first step toward reducing wildland fire risk: https://ow.ly/Qskf50ZP6vv
Understanding how vegetation and structures interact is a first step toward reducing wildland fire risk: https://ow.ly/Qskf50ZP6vv
September 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🌲 The wildland urban interface or WUI is where development meets or intermingles with nature.
Understanding how vegetation and structures interact is a first step toward reducing wildland fire risk: https://ow.ly/Qskf50ZP6vv
Understanding how vegetation and structures interact is a first step toward reducing wildland fire risk: https://ow.ly/Qskf50ZP6vv
Explore the Home Ignition Zone resource for Indigenous and Northern communities. 🏠
It supports practical conversations about the priority areas around a home and actions that can reduce wildfire risk.
Download it and share it with your community: https://ow.ly/F0uP50ZN0Bl
It supports practical conversations about the priority areas around a home and actions that can reduce wildfire risk.
Download it and share it with your community: https://ow.ly/F0uP50ZN0Bl
September 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Explore the Home Ignition Zone resource for Indigenous and Northern communities. 🏠
It supports practical conversations about the priority areas around a home and actions that can reduce wildfire risk.
Download it and share it with your community: https://ow.ly/F0uP50ZN0Bl
It supports practical conversations about the priority areas around a home and actions that can reduce wildfire risk.
Download it and share it with your community: https://ow.ly/F0uP50ZN0Bl
Put the kids on the FireSmart team! 🦊
The Kid’s Home Assessment turns a walk around your property into a family learning activity.
Look for potential risks together, then choose one small action everyone can help complete.
➡️ https://ow.ly/bb1q50ZN0yT
The Kid’s Home Assessment turns a walk around your property into a family learning activity.
Look for potential risks together, then choose one small action everyone can help complete.
➡️ https://ow.ly/bb1q50ZN0yT
September 14, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Put the kids on the FireSmart team! 🦊
The Kid’s Home Assessment turns a walk around your property into a family learning activity.
Look for potential risks together, then choose one small action everyone can help complete.
➡️ https://ow.ly/bb1q50ZN0yT
The Kid’s Home Assessment turns a walk around your property into a family learning activity.
Look for potential risks together, then choose one small action everyone can help complete.
➡️ https://ow.ly/bb1q50ZN0yT
🔍Three in four respondents believe they can reduce wildfire damage to their home, but only three in ten have acted.
Let’s close the gap: what FireSmart action will you complete this fall?
To see the survey: https://ow.ly/ALCH50ZMyNM
Let’s close the gap: what FireSmart action will you complete this fall?
To see the survey: https://ow.ly/ALCH50ZMyNM
September 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
🔍Three in four respondents believe they can reduce wildfire damage to their home, but only three in ten have acted.
Let’s close the gap: what FireSmart action will you complete this fall?
To see the survey: https://ow.ly/ALCH50ZMyNM
Let’s close the gap: what FireSmart action will you complete this fall?
To see the survey: https://ow.ly/ALCH50ZMyNM
Prep Day is more than just a day on the calendar. 📸
If your neighbourhood is planning a fall cleanup, there is still time to bring people together.
Review the photo contest details and show us how your community took action using #WildfirePrepDay.
➡️ https://ow.ly/aq4A50ZLwaH
If your neighbourhood is planning a fall cleanup, there is still time to bring people together.
Review the photo contest details and show us how your community took action using #WildfirePrepDay.
➡️ https://ow.ly/aq4A50ZLwaH
September 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Prep Day is more than just a day on the calendar. 📸
If your neighbourhood is planning a fall cleanup, there is still time to bring people together.
Review the photo contest details and show us how your community took action using #WildfirePrepDay.
➡️ https://ow.ly/aq4A50ZLwaH
If your neighbourhood is planning a fall cleanup, there is still time to bring people together.
Review the photo contest details and show us how your community took action using #WildfirePrepDay.
➡️ https://ow.ly/aq4A50ZLwaH
Heading into the long weekend? 🍂
Take 15 minutes to check your gutters, deck and porch. Sweep away dry leaves and needles, clear combustible items from underneath.
Download the Gutters and Eaves fact sheet: https://ow.ly/m6kj50ZJsTf
Take 15 minutes to check your gutters, deck and porch. Sweep away dry leaves and needles, clear combustible items from underneath.
Download the Gutters and Eaves fact sheet: https://ow.ly/m6kj50ZJsTf
September 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Heading into the long weekend? 🍂
Take 15 minutes to check your gutters, deck and porch. Sweep away dry leaves and needles, clear combustible items from underneath.
Download the Gutters and Eaves fact sheet: https://ow.ly/m6kj50ZJsTf
Take 15 minutes to check your gutters, deck and porch. Sweep away dry leaves and needles, clear combustible items from underneath.
Download the Gutters and Eaves fact sheet: https://ow.ly/m6kj50ZJsTf
A new month is a good time for a quick FireSmart check around your home. 🏡
Walk the 30m around your home and look for places where embers could collect or combustible materials are stored. Start closest to the house and choose one manageable action.
➡️https://ow.ly/yk4650ZIl0s
Walk the 30m around your home and look for places where embers could collect or combustible materials are stored. Start closest to the house and choose one manageable action.
➡️https://ow.ly/yk4650ZIl0s
September 2, 2026 at 6:01 PM
A new month is a good time for a quick FireSmart check around your home. 🏡
Walk the 30m around your home and look for places where embers could collect or combustible materials are stored. Start closest to the house and choose one manageable action.
➡️https://ow.ly/yk4650ZIl0s
Walk the 30m around your home and look for places where embers could collect or combustible materials are stored. Start closest to the house and choose one manageable action.
➡️https://ow.ly/yk4650ZIl0s
🔥 Fact or Fiction: Removing pine needles and leaves from my roof and gutters won't make a big difference to my home's wildland fire risk.
❌ Fiction. Embers from wildland fires can travel kilometres ahead of a fire front, and all they need is a small pile of dry debris to catch.
❌ Fiction. Embers from wildland fires can travel kilometres ahead of a fire front, and all they need is a small pile of dry debris to catch.
August 31, 2026 at 6:27 PM
🔥 Fact or Fiction: Removing pine needles and leaves from my roof and gutters won't make a big difference to my home's wildland fire risk.
❌ Fiction. Embers from wildland fires can travel kilometres ahead of a fire front, and all they need is a small pile of dry debris to catch.
❌ Fiction. Embers from wildland fires can travel kilometres ahead of a fire front, and all they need is a small pile of dry debris to catch.
🔥 Wildfire resilience starts with informed communities, and informed leaders.
The Ready for Wildfire Together: FireSmart Tools and Strategies for local and regional governments Course provides practical tools and strategies to help reduce wildfire risk.
👉 https://ow.ly/2ml650ZGAa6
The Ready for Wildfire Together: FireSmart Tools and Strategies for local and regional governments Course provides practical tools and strategies to help reduce wildfire risk.
👉 https://ow.ly/2ml650ZGAa6
August 28, 2026 at 4:01 PM
🔥 Wildfire resilience starts with informed communities, and informed leaders.
The Ready for Wildfire Together: FireSmart Tools and Strategies for local and regional governments Course provides practical tools and strategies to help reduce wildfire risk.
👉 https://ow.ly/2ml650ZGAa6
The Ready for Wildfire Together: FireSmart Tools and Strategies for local and regional governments Course provides practical tools and strategies to help reduce wildfire risk.
👉 https://ow.ly/2ml650ZGAa6
🏘️ The first 1.5 metres around your home can make a meaningful difference. This Immediate Zone should be kept non-combustible, including the space around attached decks.
Start small: choose one side of your home to tackle this week.
To learn more: https://ow.ly/vKBt50ZFPCc
Start small: choose one side of your home to tackle this week.
To learn more: https://ow.ly/vKBt50ZFPCc
August 26, 2026 at 6:01 PM
🏘️ The first 1.5 metres around your home can make a meaningful difference. This Immediate Zone should be kept non-combustible, including the space around attached decks.
Start small: choose one side of your home to tackle this week.
To learn more: https://ow.ly/vKBt50ZFPCc
Start small: choose one side of your home to tackle this week.
To learn more: https://ow.ly/vKBt50ZFPCc
🔥 #Indigenous communities have been using fire for land stewardship for generations.
Blazing the Trail celebrates this knowledge and highlights the role of cultural burning in wildland fire resilience.
➡️ Download your copy today: https://ow.ly/PZVm50ZET7E
Blazing the Trail celebrates this knowledge and highlights the role of cultural burning in wildland fire resilience.
➡️ Download your copy today: https://ow.ly/PZVm50ZET7E
August 24, 2026 at 6:01 PM
🔥 #Indigenous communities have been using fire for land stewardship for generations.
Blazing the Trail celebrates this knowledge and highlights the role of cultural burning in wildland fire resilience.
➡️ Download your copy today: https://ow.ly/PZVm50ZET7E
Blazing the Trail celebrates this knowledge and highlights the role of cultural burning in wildland fire resilience.
➡️ Download your copy today: https://ow.ly/PZVm50ZET7E
Transform your space into a #FireSmart haven! 🌲
Compare these two images to see how simple changes can make a big difference.
Is your home FireSmart? Share your before and after photos with us!
Compare these two images to see how simple changes can make a big difference.
Is your home FireSmart? Share your before and after photos with us!
August 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Transform your space into a #FireSmart haven! 🌲
Compare these two images to see how simple changes can make a big difference.
Is your home FireSmart? Share your before and after photos with us!
Compare these two images to see how simple changes can make a big difference.
Is your home FireSmart? Share your before and after photos with us!
🖼️ Today is #WorldPhotoDay and we want to see your best Prep Day moments!
Share a picture from you #WildfirePrepDay event and tag FireSmart Canada for a chance to be featured and win a prize!
Share a picture from you #WildfirePrepDay event and tag FireSmart Canada for a chance to be featured and win a prize!
August 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🖼️ Today is #WorldPhotoDay and we want to see your best Prep Day moments!
Share a picture from you #WildfirePrepDay event and tag FireSmart Canada for a chance to be featured and win a prize!
Share a picture from you #WildfirePrepDay event and tag FireSmart Canada for a chance to be featured and win a prize!
🚙🏕️ Planning a road trip with your kids? Aside from packing extra snacks, make sure Ember comes along too!
Check out Ember’s word search, available at: https://ow.ly/mHps50Zz0j6
Happy hunting!
Check out Ember’s word search, available at: https://ow.ly/mHps50Zz0j6
Happy hunting!
August 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🚙🏕️ Planning a road trip with your kids? Aside from packing extra snacks, make sure Ember comes along too!
Check out Ember’s word search, available at: https://ow.ly/mHps50Zz0j6
Happy hunting!
Check out Ember’s word search, available at: https://ow.ly/mHps50Zz0j6
Happy hunting!
🏡 Your home’s first line of defence starts with choices you make around it.
From fire-resistant landscaping to regular home maintenance, small changes can help reduce wildland fire risk.
This summer don’t feed the wildfires.
From fire-resistant landscaping to regular home maintenance, small changes can help reduce wildland fire risk.
This summer don’t feed the wildfires.
August 14, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🏡 Your home’s first line of defence starts with choices you make around it.
From fire-resistant landscaping to regular home maintenance, small changes can help reduce wildland fire risk.
This summer don’t feed the wildfires.
From fire-resistant landscaping to regular home maintenance, small changes can help reduce wildland fire risk.
This summer don’t feed the wildfires.
🎒 Take time to get ready for evacuations:
- Make an evacuation plan: know the different routes out of your community and have a pre-set meeting place for your family.
- Prepare your property: clear leaves, branches, and other flammable materials away from your home and structures.
- Make an evacuation plan: know the different routes out of your community and have a pre-set meeting place for your family.
- Prepare your property: clear leaves, branches, and other flammable materials away from your home and structures.
August 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
🎒 Take time to get ready for evacuations:
- Make an evacuation plan: know the different routes out of your community and have a pre-set meeting place for your family.
- Prepare your property: clear leaves, branches, and other flammable materials away from your home and structures.
- Make an evacuation plan: know the different routes out of your community and have a pre-set meeting place for your family.
- Prepare your property: clear leaves, branches, and other flammable materials away from your home and structures.
❓What do people across Canada think about wildland fire risk?
Our 2026 Public Awareness and Understanding of FireSmart in Canada explores perceptions, preparedness and the actions people are taking to reduce wildland fire risk.
🔍 Explore the results: https://ow.ly/AKav50ZybJr
Our 2026 Public Awareness and Understanding of FireSmart in Canada explores perceptions, preparedness and the actions people are taking to reduce wildland fire risk.
🔍 Explore the results: https://ow.ly/AKav50ZybJr
August 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
❓What do people across Canada think about wildland fire risk?
Our 2026 Public Awareness and Understanding of FireSmart in Canada explores perceptions, preparedness and the actions people are taking to reduce wildland fire risk.
🔍 Explore the results: https://ow.ly/AKav50ZybJr
Our 2026 Public Awareness and Understanding of FireSmart in Canada explores perceptions, preparedness and the actions people are taking to reduce wildland fire risk.
🔍 Explore the results: https://ow.ly/AKav50ZybJr
Have you participated in a #PrepDay event? We want to hear from you!
Share your pictures using #WildfirePrepDay for a chance to win a $500 gift card! 📷
Thank you to the Co-operators and our other contributors for their considerable and ongoing partnership, which helps make these events possible!
Share your pictures using #WildfirePrepDay for a chance to win a $500 gift card! 📷
Thank you to the Co-operators and our other contributors for their considerable and ongoing partnership, which helps make these events possible!
August 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Have you participated in a #PrepDay event? We want to hear from you!
Share your pictures using #WildfirePrepDay for a chance to win a $500 gift card! 📷
Thank you to the Co-operators and our other contributors for their considerable and ongoing partnership, which helps make these events possible!
Share your pictures using #WildfirePrepDay for a chance to win a $500 gift card! 📷
Thank you to the Co-operators and our other contributors for their considerable and ongoing partnership, which helps make these events possible!
📋 Taking action *before* a fire is near your community will:
- ensure your family is well prepared by having everything they need in one box, and
- reduce stress during an actual emergency, such as an evacuation.
➡ https://ow.ly/GaXT50ZwFJ3
- ensure your family is well prepared by having everything they need in one box, and
- reduce stress during an actual emergency, such as an evacuation.
➡ https://ow.ly/GaXT50ZwFJ3
August 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
📋 Taking action *before* a fire is near your community will:
- ensure your family is well prepared by having everything they need in one box, and
- reduce stress during an actual emergency, such as an evacuation.
➡ https://ow.ly/GaXT50ZwFJ3
- ensure your family is well prepared by having everything they need in one box, and
- reduce stress during an actual emergency, such as an evacuation.
➡ https://ow.ly/GaXT50ZwFJ3
Heading out camping this summer? 🔥
Before lighting a campfire follow these tips:
- Check for local fire restriction
- Never leave your fire unattended
- Soak, stir and soak again before leaving.
Let’s all do our part and keep our forests and community safe.
Before lighting a campfire follow these tips:
- Check for local fire restriction
- Never leave your fire unattended
- Soak, stir and soak again before leaving.
Let’s all do our part and keep our forests and community safe.
July 31, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Heading out camping this summer? 🔥
Before lighting a campfire follow these tips:
- Check for local fire restriction
- Never leave your fire unattended
- Soak, stir and soak again before leaving.
Let’s all do our part and keep our forests and community safe.
Before lighting a campfire follow these tips:
- Check for local fire restriction
- Never leave your fire unattended
- Soak, stir and soak again before leaving.
Let’s all do our part and keep our forests and community safe.
#DYK that leaves, pine needles, and debris in your gutters can easily ignite during a wildland fire? Cleaning your roof and gutters regularly helps reduce the chance of embers starting a fire on your home. 🍂
To learn more: https://ow.ly/Nw1c50ZulqL
To learn more: https://ow.ly/Nw1c50ZulqL
July 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
#DYK that leaves, pine needles, and debris in your gutters can easily ignite during a wildland fire? Cleaning your roof and gutters regularly helps reduce the chance of embers starting a fire on your home. 🍂
To learn more: https://ow.ly/Nw1c50ZulqL
To learn more: https://ow.ly/Nw1c50ZulqL
Joe and the Thunderbird: Teachings of Fire brings #Indigenous storytelling and good fire teachings to life through stories and activities. 📘
Learn, reflect and explore Indigenous Fire Stewardship: https://ow.ly/LX1T50ZrYCs
Learn, reflect and explore Indigenous Fire Stewardship: https://ow.ly/LX1T50ZrYCs
July 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Joe and the Thunderbird: Teachings of Fire brings #Indigenous storytelling and good fire teachings to life through stories and activities. 📘
Learn, reflect and explore Indigenous Fire Stewardship: https://ow.ly/LX1T50ZrYCs
Learn, reflect and explore Indigenous Fire Stewardship: https://ow.ly/LX1T50ZrYCs
Congratulations to the Great Falls community in Manitoba for winning the #FireSmart Canada Prep Day Photo contest for May/June! Your dedication to enhancing community safety and preparedness is truly inspiring. 👏
➡️ https://ow.ly/AnG250ZrYg3
➡️ https://ow.ly/AnG250ZrYg3
July 24, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Congratulations to the Great Falls community in Manitoba for winning the #FireSmart Canada Prep Day Photo contest for May/June! Your dedication to enhancing community safety and preparedness is truly inspiring. 👏
➡️ https://ow.ly/AnG250ZrYg3
➡️ https://ow.ly/AnG250ZrYg3
When it comes to wildland fire prevention, you don’t need to start everything at once. 🏠
Even small actions can make a meaningful difference.
Download the Begins at home guide today and choose one small FireSmart action you can do to help reduce your home’s wildfire risk.
https://ow.ly/jNLH50Zruss
Even small actions can make a meaningful difference.
Download the Begins at home guide today and choose one small FireSmart action you can do to help reduce your home’s wildfire risk.
https://ow.ly/jNLH50Zruss
July 22, 2026 at 6:13 PM
When it comes to wildland fire prevention, you don’t need to start everything at once. 🏠
Even small actions can make a meaningful difference.
Download the Begins at home guide today and choose one small FireSmart action you can do to help reduce your home’s wildfire risk.
https://ow.ly/jNLH50Zruss
Even small actions can make a meaningful difference.
Download the Begins at home guide today and choose one small FireSmart action you can do to help reduce your home’s wildfire risk.
https://ow.ly/jNLH50Zruss
Are you an insurance professional looking to better support your clients in wildland fire-prone areas? 💻
Our free insurance course provides the specialized knowledge you need to discuss mitigation and resilience with homeowners.
Start the course today: https://ow.ly/EWLv50Zq2vB
Our free insurance course provides the specialized knowledge you need to discuss mitigation and resilience with homeowners.
Start the course today: https://ow.ly/EWLv50Zq2vB
July 20, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Are you an insurance professional looking to better support your clients in wildland fire-prone areas? 💻
Our free insurance course provides the specialized knowledge you need to discuss mitigation and resilience with homeowners.
Start the course today: https://ow.ly/EWLv50Zq2vB
Our free insurance course provides the specialized knowledge you need to discuss mitigation and resilience with homeowners.
Start the course today: https://ow.ly/EWLv50Zq2vB