How much does Community Wood Smoke Reduction Program pay?

Published amounts run from $400 to $3,000, depending on the upgrade and the conditions attached to it. Every amount and its conditions are listed on this page, each with the date it was last verified against the administrator's own page.

Where do you apply for Community Wood Smoke Reduction Program?

Local programmes: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/air-land-water/air/air-pollution/smoke-burning/smoke-reduction-program/local-programs; Kamloops: https://www.kamloops.ca/our-community/environment-sustainability/wood-stove-rebate-programs; Metro Vancouver: https://metrovancouver.org/services/air-quality-climate-action/community-wood-smoke-reduction-program.

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Administered by the Province of B.C. and the BC Lung Foundation, delivered by local governments.

B.C.'s rebate for replacing an old wood stove: $1,500 toward a heat pump in most communities, $2,000 where the air quality is worst and $3,000 in Indigenous communities, with local top-ups in some places. It stacks with CleanBC's rebates, and the old stove must be destroyed.

source · verified 27 September 2026

What it pays

Provincial rates for 2026
Upgrade	Condition	Amount
Air-source heat pump	Replacing a wood stove, most communities	$1,500
Air-source heat pump	In a red-zone community, where fine particle levels have exceeded the national standard	$2,000
Air-source heat pump	In an Indigenous community	$3,000
Pellet stove	$1,000, $1,500 in a red zone, $2,000 in an Indigenous community	$1,000–$2,000
Certified wood stove	$600, or $1,200 in an Indigenous community	$600–$1,200
Electric insert	Any community	$400

What some local programmes pay toward a heat pump
Programme	Heat pump	Worth knowing
Kamloops	$1,850	A limited number in 2026, one per household
Cowichan Valley Regional District	$2,150	$2,000 from the CVRD and $150 off from the retailer; the 2026 programme ends 30 November
Comox Valley Regional District	$2,000	$2,300 for K'ómoks First Nation; the stove must be the home's main heat and at least five years old
Metro Vancouver	$1,500	$300 more if an uncertified stove is removed and demolished; $3,000 in First Nations
Regional District of Nanaimo	$1,500	$3,000 in First Nation communities

Who is eligible

How it works

Apply through your local programme; about 20 run across the province
The rebate never exceeds the cost of the new appliance
The old stove cannot be used again and must be destroyed
Exchanges from wood to natural gas or propane have not been funded since 1 January 2023

Where the application goes

Each local government or regional district runs its own intake.

Where the application goes
If this is you	Apply here
Local programmes	www2.gov.bc.ca
Kamloops	kamloops.ca
Metro Vancouver	metrovancouver.org

The thing most pages get wrong

The two provincial programmes pull in opposite directions on the old stove. This one requires it destroyed. The Energy Savings Program lets a wood-heated home keep its stove "in safe and working order" after a WETT inspection. A household that wants to keep an uncertified stove as back-up cannot also take this rebate; some districts let a certified stove stay under a Clean Burning Pledge.

It stacks

The province says the incentive "can be combined with CleanBC and federal incentives where applicable". For a wood-heated home it pays more than the Home Renovation Rebate's electric-home amounts would.

Where it runs

The province listed about 20 local programmes in August 2026, among them Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, Kelowna and the Central Okanagan, Kamloops, Prince George, the Comox and Cowichan valleys, the Regional District of Nanaimo, the Sunshine Coast, qathet and Salt Spring Island. About 11,000 wood-burning stoves have been replaced since the programme began in 2008. Where no local programme runs, there is no rebate to claim.