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Wildland Fire Services

Community Resilience

evacuation routes

Prescribed Fire

development Permitting

Utility Risk Management

Wildfire Behaviour Modeling

Ecological Restoration

Emergency Management

Wildfire Operations

Training Courses

The Forsite Fire team is uniquely qualified in wildland fire management and uses a holistic and landscape level approach to wildfire risk mitigation. Our team draws upon their on-the-ground fire experience and professional experience and credentials to provide sound advice and solutions to clients seeking to increase their resilience to wildfire.

Community Resilience

Community-based planning approach for municipalities and First Nations
CRI and FESBC funding applications and administration
FireSmart assessments, neighbourhood plans and education workshops
Community Wildfire Resiliency Plans (CWRP)

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Wildfire Evacuation Routes

Combining Forsite’s expertise in road access, road design and engineering with wildfire risk identification services
Fire behaviour analysis of community boundary and road locations
Mitigation recommendations for post construction conditions
Locate and design remote access roads, challenging access roads, road design and engineering

Prescribed Fire and Fuel Management

Fuel management prescriptions
Prescribed fire planning
Operational prescribed burning
Post-fire effects monitoring and reporting
Contract management and tendering

High Resolution Forest Fuel Mapping for Fire Resiliency

Groundbreaking technology enhances fire behaviour predictions and facilitates vegetation management and fuel reduction assessments.

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Development Permitting

Wildfire hazard assessment reports for permitting
Building and site plans review & field assessments
Wildland Urban Interface threat assessment

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Utility Risk Management

At Forsite we are at the forefront of mitigating utility wildfire risk through a collaborative effort with service providers. Our team of fire behaviour and fire weather specialists have been working hard, developing innovative wildfire risk mitigation processes and tools to support utility planning and decision-making.

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Wildfire Behaviour Modeling

Our seasoned fire weather and behavior specialists analyze historic, current and forecast weather data and predicted climate scenarios, update wildfire fuel mapping products with our Fuel ID tool and simulate wildfire behaviour and spread using the latest wildfire models. Services include:

Large-scale wildfire simulations, fire hazard and burn probability modeling to support a range of applications including landscape wildfire resiliency assessments, community wildfire risk analysis, infrastructure hazard analysis and escape route planning,
Wildfire modeling using Canadian and international systems such as Prometheus, BURN-P3 etc, and
Fuels assessments and mapping including integration of remote sensing data into wildland fuels assessment.

Ecological Restoration

Wildfires cause massive impact to communities by damaging social, cultural, economic, and environmental values. Recovering from a wildfire is a multi-year process that takes staff with expertise and dedication in post-fire scenarios. Forsite’s staff, working in conjunction with our community clients, have been heavily involved in post wildfire recovery in a variety of aspects including:

Habitat analysis
Vegetation monitoring plans, implementation and reporting
Timber development and harvest supervision for burned areas
Danger tree assessments and falling supervision
Assessments, prescription development, and contractor supervision for rehabilitation of fire guards, recreation trails, etc.
Application and support overseeing disaster relief funding programs to help restore public infrastructure
Engagement and communication with First Nations, stakeholders, and the general public during wildfire recovery initiative