The FireSmart BC program website shows a moderately large single-family home through the eyes of a wildfire. As you move your cursor around, fire follows: flaming debris on the unkempt asphalt roof; blazing patio furniture leaning against the garage; potted cedars scorching the siding. Cedars have been a popular landscape plant in B.C. yards for decades, says Lori Daniels, a professor in the department of forest and conservation sciences at the University of BC, and the Koerner chair in wildfire coexistence. Unfortunately, she says, they “go up like a Roman candle.” As B.C.’s wildfires become more frequent and intense, resulting in evacuations, the loss of homes and businesses, and deaths, experts are encouraging homeowners and developers to remove cedars and junipers, or not plant them at all. “Cedars are highly flammable when they are dry,” Daniels says. “They retain dead foliage.”