FireSmart Canada and your FireSmart Committee encourage you to
take actions that increase your home, neighbourhood and community's
resilience to wildfire.
A detailed Wildfire Hazard Assessment was completed in May 2024. Click here.
As the Wildfire Hazard Assessment highlights, focus on the "immediate" zone around your home.
"FireSmarting" 1.5 meters around your home is the best way to reduce the chance of a burning ember igniting material close to your home such as your deck plantings or pine needles in your gutters or yards.
2025 FireSmart Challenge
From April 1st to August 30th, QRRA will be drawing names monthly for a $100 Nesters’ Gift Card to reward homeowners for "firesmarting" their property. Homeowners are encouraged to enter their property throughout the summer to try and win.
To enter, email us “before” and “after” photos of what you did to “firesmart” your property to qrraexec@gmail.com.
We are encouraging that the focus be on the 1.5 meters around each home and this includes gutter cleaning ... but any FireSmart work done on your property counts as well!
Congratulations to Ella van Dinther, our May Winner, who removed trees and shrubs that were up against her front patio.
Other Ideas
Learn about your home's ignition zones at: The Home Ignition Zone | FireSmart Canada
Assess your property – See: HIZ-Self-Assessment-8.5x11-WEB.pdf (firesmartcanada.ca)
Consider upgrading your yard waste bin: cartchangeform_june2021.pdf (kelowna.ca)
Review and prepare with the Quail Ridge Community Evacuation Plan
About Us
The QRRA FireSmart Committee works to improve the safety of homeowners and reduce the risk of damage to property from wildfires.
The Committee's goals for 2025 are:
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Educate and re-educate members about FireSmart and what homeowners can do to safeguard their homes, and
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Improve community connections with the Kelowna Fire Department, the Okanagan Golf Course and FireSmart BC and Canada.
