Wildfire Protection Strategy
The Resort Municipality of Whistler is investing in an accelerated wildfire protection program guided by a its Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan (CWRP) adopted in 2022.
The CCF and RMOW are partnering to carry out the wildfire fuel management programs in high priority areas around Whistler that are within the CCF tenure. In 2017-18, the CCF completed a five kilometre fuel break along the Callaghan FSR, and a 22 hectare site above Alpine Meadows neighbourhood and adjacent to the 21 Mile watershed water intake infrastructure. It then created a 115 hectare fuel break adjacent to the Cheakamus Lake Road. Through 2023 and 2024, it treated 20.7 hectares of high risk forest that had been affected by pine beetle adjacent to the Wedgewoods neighbourhood. The next fuel break will be done along the 16 Mile FSR starting in 2025.
