Local Government FireSmart Adoption 

The primary objective of this project is to help accelerate and scale the uptake of wildfire risk mitigation measures by local governments across Canada. Our project partners (FireSmart, Ontario’s AFFES, and the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction) help to collaboratively identify foundational knowledge research needs that would help to improve programs and better achieve a whole-of-society approach to wildfire risk mitigation.

This project is driven by four major objectives: 

1. Investigating barriers to local government adoption of mitigation efforts;

2. Working with our partners to support the creation of interventions to overcome these barriers and improve the scalability of fire mitigation efforts across Canada;

3. Refining these interventions with our partners to encourage both long-term adoption and adaptation over time by local governments to ensure their continuing impact;

4. Developing strategies for monitoring and evaluating partnerships with local governments and adopting a continuous improvement approach to these partnerships.