🔥 #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

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!

🖼️ 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!

🚙🏕️ 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!

🏡 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.

🎒 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.

❓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

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!

📋 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

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.

#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

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

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

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

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

Fiction: If my lawn is green, my home can’t burn. 🍃 Fact: During a wildland fire, embers can travel kilometres ahead of the fire front and ignite combustible materials around your home, including grass. The tip: cut your grass short, less than 10cm!

Need help to start your FireSmart journey? We have a course for that! 🏘️ Our free, one-hour, FireSmart 101 course will teach you all the ins and outs of how to apply FireSmart principles at home and in your community! https://ow.ly/bRXO50ZmufN

A FireSmart yard starts one step a time! 🌱 Choosing fire-resistant plants, spacing vegetation, and keeping grass short can help reduce wildland fire risks around your home. Learn more by downloading the FireSmart Landscaping guide: https://ow.ly/mrS050ZmtW0

Show us how your community is getting FireSmart! 🦊 If your community hosted a #WildfirePrepDay event, don’t forget to enter the 2026 Prep Day Photo Contest! 📷 Contest details: https://ow.ly/psIs50ZmlHL

We are excited to be attending the Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) conference in Montreal! 🦊 Visit us at booth 19 to explore FireSmart Canada resources and chat about how planning can help build wildland fire resilient communities!

We’ve all seen the “don’t feed the wildlife” signs, but with the risk of wildland fires growing across Canada it’s important that we don’t feed the wildfires either. 🔥 During this fire season, take simple steps at home to reduce your wildland fire risk.

Follow Joe Gilchrist of the Secwépemc Nation guided by the Thunderbird, a powerful being restoring balance through fire, in Joe and the Thunderbird: Teachings of Fire. 📖 A collaboration between Thunderbird Collective and FireSmart Canada. ➡️https://ow.ly/j88B50Zk0Rt

Help bring Ember the FireSmart Fox to life! 🦊 CIFFC is seeking proposals from qualified manufacturers to produce the official Ember the FireSmart Fox mascot costume. To learn more: https://ow.ly/AnGM50ZiThc

As National Indigenous History Month comes to a close, we honour the knowledge, and leadership of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. 📹 This video highlights the power of sharing knowledge, building connections, and learning from one another. ➡️ https://ow.ly/HpUc50Ziaiy

Whether you are doing regular yard maintenance or making large scale changes like renovations or landscaping, you can make choices that will help protect your home from wildfire. 🌲 ➡️ https://ow.ly/Eles50Zhjfs

🚙🏕️ Planning a road trip with your kids? Aside from packing extra snacks, make sure Ember comes along too! Check out Ember’s resources, available at: https://ow.ly/L3l950ZgiMk

Today, on National Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate the diverse cultures, traditions, languages, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples across Canada.

Did you capture your hard work during your #WildfirePrepDay event? 📷 Don’t let these photos sit in your camera roll, they could win a prize! ➡️https://ow.ly/eBAh50ZeBrx

🔥 #DYK that most homes that are damaged or destroyed by wildland fire are not impacted by the advancing wall of flame, but by ignition from flying sparks and embers? This fire season, take simple steps that reduce the risk to your home.

“Reigniting Cultural Burning with the Blood Tribe Fire Guardians” is a powerful story about the revitalization of cultural burning and the important role Indigenous knowledge continues to play in wildfire resilience. 🔥 ➡️ https://ow.ly/QKWe50ZbY3f #NIHM2026