You’ve probably noticed that you hear of the negative impacts of wildfires more often that you used to. Climate change continues to play a big role in increasing the severity, the frequency, and the destructive impact of wildfires on communities, on wildlife habitats, and on parks. FPInnovations’ Wildfire Operations Research Program has been developing, delivering, and validating innovative solutions and technologies through independent operational research in order to protect communities, manage wildfires, as well as reduce negative impact of unwanted wildfires. As part of putting a spotlight on wildfires and Canadian resilience, we start this series with speaking of community resilience and mitigation efforts. In this series: Community resilience and protection; Improving Canada’s wildfire response capabilities; Wildfire detection solutions; Firefighter safety; and Harvesting and transformation of burnt wood.