With the growing threat of climate change and wildfire risk, ‘Fire Week’ presents a timely opportunity to raise awareness and highlight successful fire resilience projects led by partners throughout British Columbia. I think it’s important to begin by taking a closer look and recognize that successful landscape-level wildfire risk reduction starts right in our own backyard. Making changes to the area closest to your home, and to your home itself, can have a significant impact to reduce risk in the face of a wildfire. This isn’t to downplay the success and valuable work of hundreds of projects we’ve invested in but rather to emphasize the opportunity for even greater impact through improved coordination between programs such as FireSmart, the First Nations’ Emergency Services Society of BC, and the Crown Land Wildfire Risk Reduction Program. The Forest Enhancement Society of BC has a unique role in helping facilitate these efforts.