The Wildfire Awareness Society

08/08/2026

Peace of mind has a cost: good news it is affordable.

Now Available for Purchase - Structure Protection Kits

When a wildfire threatens, preparation can make all the difference.
Yukon First Nations Wildfire is proud to offer Structure Protection Kits for purchase, designed to help protect homes, cabins, and other structures by delivering water where it's needed most.

Each kit includes:
💧 1 × WATERAX Mini-Striker high-pressure water pump
💧 2 × High-flow ¾" Rainbird sprinklers
💧 2 × Mid-flow ½" Rainbird sprinklers
💧 200' of 1.5" firefighting hose
💧 300' of ¾" econo hose
💧 1 × Intake suction hose
💧 1 × Foot valve and strainer
💧 1 × Hose wrench
💧 Connectors, valves, and caps for customizing layouts

Whether you're preparing your property or adding to your emergency equipment, these kits provide the essential components needed to support a structure protection sprinkler system.

Interested in purchasing a Structure Protection Kit or looking for pricing? Contact us:
Email Dalton at [email protected]
Or call our office: 867-667-7258

07/18/2026

07/13/2026

As the weather shifts it's clear that smoke from the NWT can makes it's way to Whitehorse! Crown fires drive smoke high into the air and it moves 1000s of kilometers.

07/08/2026

Rising C02 isn't just making it warmer, it's making the spruce and pine trees in Whitehorse grow denser foliage. This removes any spare nitrogen from the forest floor and makes it drier and darker.

07/08/2026

There is increasingly less resistance to fire hazard reduction work in the Whitehorse area but it still remains. Most people object to fire hazard reduction work due their love of nature. There is a rapidly growing peer reviewed data set that shows that opening up pure conifer stands significantly increases biodiversity. An easy anecdote is moose don’t eat spruce, they eat willow. And Willow needs a a little light.

07/08/2026

Next time you are out and about listen for birds in fire reduction treated areas and in dense conifer.

06/29/2026

A lot of people think that homes are lost due to direct forest fire interaction. The truth is that most homes are lost from sparks carried in from crown fires that are in the distance. That's why it's critical to make sure that there isn't things in your yard that can catch on fire that will ignite your house. Dirty gutters full of dry leaves are an easy place to start. Moving woodpiles away from the house and removing conifer trees are also easy ways to harden your home.

06/09/2026

This is a great opportunity to get the tools you need to firesmart your property.

TODAY!

via Raven ReCentre — Join Raven ReCentre, the City of Whitehorse, and The Wildfire Awareness Society in our FireSmarting Your Home workshop.

📍 Raven ReCentre (100 Galena Rd)
📆 Tuesday, June 9
⏰️ 6:30 to 8:30 pm

FREE pizza and really good coffee. Time to spruce up your gardens be firesmart ready this Spring!

Learn about all the different firesmarting tools for your home with Raven ReCentre's Tool Library.

Get to know how the City of Whitehorse’s FireSmart program supports residents, with tools like FREE home assessments, Neighbourhood Recognition, and more. whitehorse.ca/firesmart

Find at least 10 differences with the Wildfire Awareness Society between the 2 sides of a model of a duplex, where one side has been FireSmarted and the other hasn’t.

Register at: events.humanitix.com/firesmart-2026

05/10/2026

Whitehorse and Jasper share many things in common.

04/25/2026

The Jasper fire of 2024 came from the south, which is the right hand corner of this picture. Fire smart fuel reductions were done in the left part of this picture where the fire stopped. The fire jumped highway 16 and the railway. Listening to the previous fire chief tonight at Beringia he feels that it would have been necessary to keep the fire on the ground at least 2km out of town. Dense coniferous forest came within 300 meters of town on the west end. The dense spark storm and intense winds that destroyed 800 housing units in Jasper are what lit the town on fire, not direct flames from the fire itself. Intense crownfires go where they want, are not actionable by wildland fire fighters, and throw sparks for many kilometers down wind.