For remote First Nations, wildfires can result in damaged or destroyed
homes, outages to critical infrastructure such as power or
telecommunications, and require evacuations which have their own negative
consequences such as trauma, being the target of racism, domestic violence,
or even suicide (Asfaw et al., 2019; McGee, 2021; Office of the Auditor
General of Canada [OAG], 2022; Public Health Agency of Canada [PHAC],
2024). With this in mind, the following research is a review of mitigation
methods, and associated challenges, that when put in place would increase
wildfire resilience for the First Nations in the ILR. Mitigation methods and
options were evaluated in their current form with current constraints to
recommend a course of action that the ILR First Nations, and applicable
parties, must take to implement mitigation options and achieve wildfire
resilience.
