Solutions

Natural Hazards

Powerful hazard forecasting, planning and mitigation tools

Software for Real Change

Our standalone tools synthesize data and information to enable land managers to forecast, mitigate and recover from natural hazards, principally wildfires. In line with Spatial Informatics Group’s open science philosophy, our software tools are open source and free to use online.

Developed with our professional partners, and helping risk managers and planners to meet their hazard and risk reduction objectives, SIG’s Natural Hazards tools create real change on the ground.

Comprehensive Solutions

PyreCast

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Visualizes active fires, models spread, and tracks weather

Near real-time fire updates, fire spread forecasts, and fire risk assessments that empower agencies and individuals to make decisions about evacuation orders, suppression and containment strategies, power grid shut-offs, and more
Planscape application

Planscape

Planscape

Free, online wildfire resilience support tool

Decision support tools designed to help wildland planning teams in California identify optimal areas for wildfire resilience treatments. The package combines the latest available data with sophisticated models in a free, open source tool available to all.

BehavePlus 7

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BehavePlus

Classic desktop fire modeling, updated with new science

Desktop Fire Modeling modernized with a new architecture allowing ongoing updates as science develops. A critical tool for land managers who must make decisions in managing real fires.

HYDRAFloods

HYDRAFloods

HYDRAfloods

Free, open science emergency flooding data

The Hydrologic Remote Sensing Analysis for Floods (HYDRAFloods) is a public, web-based flood monitoring tool that employs satellite remote sensing data and AI to improve flood detection for emergency responders.
Beta Interagency Treatment Dashboard

InterAgency Treatment Dashboard

First-of-its-kind platform that displays the location and size of wildfire treatments throughout the state

A highly interactive online tool by which users can sort treatments by region, county, land ownership, and more. By charting the work of what has been accomplished to date, the Dashboard can be used to guide practitioners on where to plan new projects.

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