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Backgrounders

About Community Resiliency Investment grants
  • Community Resiliency Investment (CRI) grants in the FireSmart Community Funding and Supports category help recipients mitigate wildfire risks and impacts around communities by supporting activities in nine eligible funding areas:
    • education
    • vegetation management (reducing accumulations of flammable materials on the landscape)
    • community planning
    • development considerations (looking at ways that local governments could regulate development to incorporate FireSmart principles)
    • inter-agency co-operation
    • FireSmart training and cross-training
    • emergency management planning
    • FireSmart projects for critical infrastructure
    • FireSmart activities for residential areas
  • Eligible applicants facing a lower wildfire risk can apply for up to $50,000 through the FireSmart Community Funding and Supports category, while applicants facing a demonstrated higher wildfire risk can apply for up to $150,000. They can apply for funding to cover up to 100% of the cost of their projects.
  • The Union of B.C. Municipalities administers the $60-million FireSmart Community Funding and Supports grant program. It processes grant applications in partnership with the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, and the First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of B.C. The next application intake opens on June 30, 2021, and information about the application process will be available on the Union of B.C. Municipalities website.