Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Wildfire Risk Management

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTL12 (NR)

Core responsibility

Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

This program provides tools and applied science to help governments, industries, communities and citizens adapt and live with wildfire impacts. Although wildfire is an important process necessary to maintain forest health and diversity, it has threatened more people, property and natural resource values in the past decade than ever before. Despite advances in fire management wildfires are larger and more severe during longer fire seasons, which is expected to continue under a changing climate. As the Government of Canada, Provinces and Territories all have responsibilities related to wildfire management, a strong partnership across governments is required to minimize the risks and impacts of wildfires. The Canadian Forest Service will provide national leadership, particularly on wildfire science, by actively cultivating new partnerships and new investments, being flexible in delivery models to achieve results faster, and making visible and significant contributions to the Canadian Wildfire Strategy.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.