What is Fireguard and how can it help you
What is Fireguard and how can it help you
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A brief history
A brief history
Inspired by the recent LA fires of 2024, the team was eager to create a tool that could help communities stay informed about active wild fires and future wild fire risks. It was a tool meant to be leveraged by communities to prepare for such catastrophic events as global warming continues to increase in magnitude.
Where we are today
Where we are today
We have created a one stop dashboard that users can navigate to assess wild fire risk in their areas. This solution currently only supports predictions in California, but future iterations aim to increase the scope to other regions. The dashboard provides an interactive map that users can navigate the find areas of interest/concern, determine additional fire risk details, and general heuristics around the fuel load and availability in the selected area.
Features
Features
Views
Views
The dashboard offers three views. Each view offers different insights.
The default view provides general fire risk assessment. It can be used by the general public assess the risk of wild fires in their immediate area.
The Industrial view overlays the fire risk information with key power infrastructure. Power companies can leverage this information to focus their maintenance efforts on areas that are at highest risk.
Finally the Residential view overkays the fire risk information with areas that are designated to be residential zones. This includes areas that are currently setup as residential zones and have been marked for future development. Community planners can leverage this information to determine ideal, wild fire safe zones for future housing development.
Default View
Industrial View
Residential View
Navigation
Navigation
Users can navigate the map using the zoom buttons on the left side of the console, or using the scroll wheel on their mouse. Users can also select and drag the map to navigate the map. For more fine grained navigation, users can use the search bar to locate cities, neighbourhoods and individual street addresses of interest.
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