Emergency Preparedness & Response

Fire Services

Forest Fuel Management

National Satellite Initiative

Provincial Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative (SWPI)

 

The Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative (SWPI) is a suite of funding programs managed through the Provincial Fuel Management Working Group – including the First Nations Emergency Services Society (FNESS), Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Operations and the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM). Grant administration is provided by UBCM and funding is from the Ministry. The initiative supports communities to mitigate risk from wildfire in the wildland urban interface.

[The wildland urban interface is any area where combustible wildland fuels (vegetation) are found adjacent to homes, farm structures or other outbuildings. For the purpose of the SWPI, the wildland urban interface is the areas within 2 kilometres of a community with densities of between 10 and 1,000 structures per square kilometre.]

Funding under the Strategic Wildfire Prevention Initiative is available for:
• Development of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
• Development of a Fuel Management Prescription
• Implementation of Fuel Management Demonstration Projects
• Operational fuel treatment activities
 

Application deadlines for 2013 are:

  • January 25, 2013
  • April 26, 2013
  • October 4, 2013

Program and Application Guide, Application Forms, and Final Report Forms

Community Wildfire Protection Plan Program

  1. Program & Application Guide
  2. Application Form
  3. Final Report Forms


Fuel Management Prescription Program

  1. Program & Application Guide
  2. Application Form
  3. Template
  4. Final Report Forms

 

Fuel Management Demonstration Project Program

  1. Program & Application Guide
  2. Application Form
  3. Final Report Forms

 

Operational Fuel Treatment Program

  1. Program & Application Guide
  2. Application Form
  3. Final Report Forms

 

GIS materials for the new 2013 guides (geodatabase template, sample data submission, sample maps, copy of the spatial appendix and ReadMe document) available here:: ftp://ftp.for.gov.bc.ca/HPR/external/!publish/FuelsManagement/GIS_Template/

What is a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)?

Completion of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a major initial step towards reducing the wildfire threats to forested communities. The CWPP will direct all future wildfire threat reduction activities by ensuring that all known issues are brought forward and addressed in one document. The CWPP allows the community to determine the goals and objectives of the plan to ensure their values establish the plan’s direction. The CWPP should identify and prioritize all wildfire threat areas and suggest treatment options to reduce the wildfire threat to acceptable limits. It should provide a clear direction so that communities can move forward to manage the local wildfire threat.

Community Wildfire Protection Plan Templates & Information

  1. What is a Community Wildfire Protection Plan?
  2. CWPP Planning Tool Kit
  3. CWPP Recommended Content List
  4. Funding & Implementation Process
  5. Prescription Template
  6. Geodatabase Template for Spatial Data Final Report Submissions: ftp://ftp.for.gov.bc.ca/HPR/external/!publish/FuelsManagement/GIS_Template/