The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

• fires

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

• apps
• fires

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

• fires

• Hardware
• 2020 Emerging Tech Projects
• Satellites

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

• fires

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Digital twins

The messenger for emergency services

• disasters
• Matrix
• fires

• Govtech
• Emergency services

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Emergency services
• Drones

Reforesting after wildfires with drones

• sustainability
• forests
• fires

• Drones

Tracking Current Wildfires in the US

• fires

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Tech for public challenges