PyreCast is the next-generation wildfire forecasting platform designed to help utilities, emergency managers, and communities stay ahead of rapidly evolving fire risk.
Built on transparent, peer-reviewed science and a public-mission-driven ethos, PyreCast delivers predictive, actionable insights through state-of-the-art fire behavior models, ignition forecasts, and real-time fuel and weather data.
Whether you're planning for public safety power shutoffs, coordinating emergency response, or tracking emerging threats across the landscape, PyreCast empowers informed, risk-based decisions when every moment matters.
Advancing scientific knowledge of wildfire behavior; building next-generation forecasting tools made available to all.
Unparalleled breadth of scientific & technical expertise, with decades in wildfire modeling.
The sole science-driven, fully transparent, non-shareholder-held solution serving wildfire preparedness needs.
Flexible, premium, enterprise-ready SaaS services priced for public good.
PyreCast pinpoints the location of actively burning wildfires as detected with satellite and airborne heat sensors and ground-based observations. PyreCast provides forecasts of hourly fire spread across the landscape over a 14-day timeframe.
VIEWActive Wildfires & Wildfire Spread Forecast
Up to 5-day forecast of fire consequence using parallel ignition patterns — "all-caused" and "transmission line." PyreCast models behavior of hypothetical ignitions each day using up-to-date landscape and forecasted weather parameters. PyreCast's flexible customization best meet risk forecasting needs like specific service territories and line ignition patterns to support utility de-energization decisions.
VIEWAll Caused Ignitions
Forecasts (up to 16 days out) critical weather parameters affecting wildfire behavior and derived fire weather indices, with up to 34 parameters in total. Select from nine different weather forecasting models, including HRRR, NAM, RTMA, & GFS.
VIEWWildfire Weather Forecasts
Operational wildfire intelligence built on transparent, peer-reviewed science.