This website provides essential resources to help you and your family prepare for an emergency or disaster. It offers guidance on building an emergency kit for your home and vehicle, preparing your pets, getting ready to evacuate, downloading useful apps, and much more.
The Canadian Red Cross offers essential tips on its website to help you better prepare for and recover from emergencies.
The Alberta government created this video to help you prepare for wildfires. Learn the essential steps to become better prepared and how to respond effectively in case of an emergency.
The Alberta government created this video to guide you through simple steps for building your emergency kit, ensuring you're better prepared for any emergency or disaster.
FireSmart Canada is a national program dedicated to helping Canadians enhance their neighbourhood's resilience to wildfires and minimize their negative impacts. Click the link above to discover solutions, resources, tools, and programs for wildfire risk reduction and loss prevention.
The FireSmart Canada fact sheet provides guidelines to help you FireSmart your home, offering tips for upgrading and maintaining your roof, gutters, vents, siding, decks, and fencing. It’s crucial to consider every part of your home to reduce wildfire risk. Click the image to download the PDF file and learn more.
The Canadian portal for wildland fire weather and smoke information offers BlueSky Canada smoke forecasts, fire weather forecasts, fire information, and the BlueSky Playground. With this tool, you can track wildfire smoke forecasts across Canada and parts of the U.S. in near real-time. It shows you where the smoke is now, where it’s expected to move over the next 48 hours, and how thick or concentrated it may be in your area.Click the link above for high-resolution, interactive forecasts of hourly, daily average, and daily maximum concentrations of PM2.5 smoke particles at ground level from wildfires.
The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) Interactive Map by Natural Resources Canada feature: Fire Weather Index, Fire Danger, Fire Perimeter Estimate, Fire M3 Hotspots, Season-to-date Hotspots, Active Fires, Forecast weather stations, and Reporting weather stations. With this tool, you can view active fires nationwide, zoom in to see detailed fire perimeters, and click on individual fires to get key details like the fire’s name, size, status, and detection date. You can even look back at past fire locations by selecting specific dates and analyzing fire patterns over time. The map also shows daily fire danger ratings—from low to extreme—updated regularly so you can stay ahead of changing conditions. You can also overlay critical weather data to better understand current conditions. Click the link above to explore this resource.
The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) fire information page is packed with tools to track fire activity across Canada, and here is what you’ll find there: a dashboard for fire updates, including total active fires, affected areas, and an interactive wildfire map; Situation Reports with daily summaries of wildfire activity, including the number of new fires, current conditions, resources in use, and interagency support; Current Fires Summary that shows a a real-time snapshot of active wildfires by region or province, and metrics like the number of new fires on the day, and how many are under control vs. out of control; a National Fires List with a full breakdown of individual fires across Canada, including their location, size, cause, and current status (e.g., “being held” or “out of control”); and Wildfire Graphs of trends in fire activity. Charts may show data like the number of fires over time and hectares burned. Click the link above to explore this resource.
The First Nations' Emergency Services Society (FNESS) of British Colombia provides community-based Emergency Management guidance, support and assistance to BC First Nations communities. The FNESS Emergency Management (EM) Department created a list of Wildfire Resources - Before, During and After a Wildfire (2022). Click on the link above to download the file.
Stronger Together: A Toolkit for First Nations-Municipal Community Economic Development Partnerships
This toolkit was created to provide a framework for First Nation and municipal partners to jointly establish an emergency evacuation hosting operational plan. Click on the link above to download the file.
Joint Emergency Management Steering Committee (JEMS) Service Level Evacuation Standards
The JEMS manual describes considerations for the evacuation of, care for and return of First Nations in Ontario. The manual highlights expectations for the First Nation, host communities, provincial and federal partners, and non-governmental organizations. The document also details the responsibilities of each partner during hosting operations. The document outlines expected costs, financial approvals, checklists, job descriptions, forms, and definitions. Click on the link above to download the file.
Support for Albertans Affected By Wildfire: Help in a Stressful Time
Helping People to Cope and Heal After the Wildfires
Government of Alberta
We respectfully acknowledge that we are situated on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of First Nations and Métis people.