Maude Lussier

Will BC Axe FireSmart Funding in Tomorrow’s Budget? | The Tyee The province has suggested fire prevention funding will be centralized. Local officials are concerned.

As provincial politicians look to trim B.C.’s deficit, their municipal counterparts are worried about the future of a program that helps protect communities from wildfires.

@tyolsen.bsky.social reports. 🔥 #bcpoli #BCBudget2026

Conceptual framework illustrating how burn probability (BP) models can be used to evaluate firebreak effectiveness at landscape scales

New paper in Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review.

Firebreak effectiveness depends on a combination of environmental, structural, and operational factors, including width, placement, maintenance, fuel conditions, and suppression capacity.

Do you have ideas/comments on the federal role/leadership in emergency management in Canada? If so, check out this public engagement site.

www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

Carson Ellis, Fiery Comet, watercolour on paper, 2012

Covered Bridge with Skaters
Maud Lewis
c. 1964

Fire on Ice: The Arctic’s Changing Fire Regime - NASA Science An increasingly flammable landscape combined with more lightning strikes is leading to larger, more frequent, and more intense fires than the landscape is adapted for.

science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Home for Christmas
Maud Lewis
c. 1958

I’m curious about the dog walking situation. How long before they freeze their little toes?

Harvest and store in brown paper bags with apples, it speeds up ripening.

Banff takes lessons from destructive Jasper wildfire: 'FireSmart works' "It became apparent that given how quickly things were likely to develop that if we had ignition in the lower valley bottom the fires would likely get large quite quickly.”

ICYMI: “Banff takes lessons from destructive Jasper wildfire: 'FireSmart works'” www.rmoutlook.com/banff/banff-... - Rocky Mountain Outlook

#ABFire #Alberta #Banff #Wildfires cc: #Jasper

DCRRA This page is part of the ClimateReadyBC site. The British Columbia Disaster and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment (DCRRA) and the B.C. Hazard Insights Tool provide key information on different ha...

New report out today - theBritish Columbia Disaster and Climate Risk and Resilience Assessment (DCRRA). This assessment includes natural and climate-related hazards in BC—such as floods, extreme heat, wildfires and earthquakes

climatereadybc.gov.bc.ca/pages/dcrra

Fire regime changes in Canada: an update Given the recent rise in extreme fires, we present an update to a previous Canadian wildfire trend analysis (1959-2015) with nine additional years of data (2016-2024), an improved area burned dataset,...

🔥 New fire paper out - Fire regime changes in Canada: an update. Overall, the big-picture trends remain consistent: annual area burned, the annual number and size of large fires are still increasing, but the total number of fires for all sizes continue to decline.
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Wildfire management at a crossroads: Mitigation and prevention or response and recovery? As direct and indirect costs of fires continue to grow, so too might motivation to invest more heavily in mitigation

What happens when a critical sector like forestry, the backbone of so many rural communities in western Canada, is no longer viable or sustainable because so much standing and future volume has been lost to wildfires? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

To Burn or Not to Burn - Offrange After years of devastating wildfires, many producers are wondering if prescribed burns might improve their acreage. Here’s how to keep land, livestock, buildings, and selves safe.

Wildfires are having increasing negative impacts on animals, landscapes, and humans — including farmers and ranchers and their livestock and properties. This week in Offrange, I investigate how prescribed burns can help, and how to protect yourself and your acreage. ambrook.com/offrange/liv...

✏ Long-hidden Inuit drawings are finally getting their spotlight. Turns out these archives were keeping the best art secret in the North!

'Sights Unseen'
Text by Cooper Langford
Photos courtesy of Kinngait Studio archive

Read the full story here: uphere.ca/articles/sig...

This is incredible ♥️

#Wildfires are threatening B.C.’s #drinking #water

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How do you build a home that can survive B.C. wildfires? | The Narwhal In Tsilhqot’in territory, a former Yunesit’in chief and an architect designed a fire-resistant house built to last in B.C.’s hot Interior

After Yunesit’in was ravaged by wildfire in 2017, former chief Russell Myers Ross started chasing a dream: a house built to withstand everything climate change can throw at it. new from @sevawood.bsky.social:

thenarwhal.ca/fire-resista...

Lighting forecast for this Saturday for Canada - lots of lightning over BC - WA -OR-ID https://meteologix.com/ca/model-charts/euro/canada/lightning-density/20250907-0000z.html

Duff Moisture Code for Canada for Sept 6 - shows high dmc values over parts of western canada https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/maps/fw?type=dmc&year=2025&month=09&day=06

Double Yikes for BC wildfires
Lots of lightning this weekend in BC (& WA-OR-ID) after a very long hot & dry period. Fuels are receptive (Duff Moisture Code is high - means very dry fuels where ltg fires typically ignite). If the forecast holds, I expect 100-200 new fire starts during Sept. 6-9 in BC

Snapshot from ECMWF ensemble depicting an extreme and record-breaking ridge near British Columbia in ~6 days.

A bit farther ahead, it's increasingly looking like a rather extreme late-season ridge & heatwave event may develop over Pacific NW & British Columbia in about a week--with some degree of anomalous warmth extending across most of the West (including California). #CAwx #ORwx #WAwx

North America’s forests used to burn a lot more than present… So, is climate change really making wildfires worse today?

A good story about current and historical fire activity in Canada (and the US) though I may be biased

thetradeoff.substack.com/p/north-amer...

A flyer describing a course offering. Text reads “GEOS 305 Wildfire Activity Mapping Fall 2025. An introduction to historical and active wildfire mapping. Covers various wildfire, data sources, methods for mapping historical, active fires, and limitations of current GIS workflows in the field.” If you are an EWU student then you enroll based on the course schedule, but non-EWU students complete asynchronously.

I’m teaching a GIS course Fall 2025 on wildfire activity mapping. This class will be offered through the Prof and Continuing Edu program at Eastern Washington University and you don’t need to be an EWU student to enroll! Email or DM with questions or if you’d like the syllabus!

Same. I would normally be in an
EOC for several weeks, go bags packed, while frantically looking at all the fire detection apps. This year, nada. But you know what? I think many of us deserved a break.

Colorado’s Marshall Fire survivors find healing and meaning through oral history project Oral history contributors were able to share their stories, and many felt a sense of healing.

Colorado's Marshall Fire survivors share their stories of loss, resilience and community support through an oral history project.

Their experiences offer insights for other communities facing climate-related disasters. theconversation.com/colorados-ma...

Study shows Routt County residents underestimate wildfire risk A recently completed study by the Wildfire Research Center shows that an average 65% of homes in three representative Routt County neighborhoods are considered at “high” risk from wildfire, yet only 1...

This is a great article on fire risk for communities of any size:
www.steamboatpilot.com/news/study-s... #wildfire

Map of Canadian wildfire location and status https://www.ciffc.ca/

500 mb anomaly map of north america showing a ridge over Alberta and Saskatchewan https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=500h_anom&rh=2025072312&fh=loop&r=na&dpdt=&mc=

🚩Potential for another fire weather/fire episode in Canada Starting next Tue-Wed (Jul 29-30) in AB then shifting to SK – MB – NWRN ON (Wed – Sat Aug 2). This is concerning as 2025 is very active fire season with 280 Out of Control fires - many in the regions mentioned. 500mb anomaly forecast below.

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Thank you for sharing this critical information

“The man didn’t have to cut a fireline with a Pulaski or a chainsaw; he didn’t have to work in a bulldozer cutting a dozer line; and he didn’t have to have air support to keep the fire out of the trees. The snow did the work.”

Listening to a panel that includes Dr. Stephen Pyne - arguably the country's most important wildfire historian - and he just called for getting rid of the term the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). That's because it presumes the responsibility of wildfire for urban fires like LA, Lahaina, Marshall etc