What is Wildfire Analyst

Wildfire Analyst

Wildfire Analyst is a cloud-based SaaS offering that provides on-demand wildfire spread prediction capabilities to support operational response, what-if scenario analysis, with wildfire risk forecasting. The integration with advanced weather prediction data affords the development of hourly risk forecasts up to five days in advance.

Millions of wildfire spread simulations are conducted daily to derive accurate risk metrics reflecting where fires will spread and the possible impacts from those fires. The spread simulations derive potential impacts providing the baseline for consequence analysis and operational decision-making

Benefits & Features

Working closely with the leading wildfire management agencies, electric utilities, and private industry customers, Technosylva has successfully developed and implemented a suite of wildfire analysis products that are specifically designed to meet the needs of operational response and mitigation planning.

• Proactive Risk Forecasting - Predict wildfire risk days in advance to support operational decision-making for de-energization, setting readiness levels, EOC activation and resource allocation.

• Risk Mitigation - Quantifying asset and territory risk to inform on the most effective mitigation and asset hardening options.

• Wildfire Spread predictions - On-demand spread predictions in response to active incidents, and to support proactive planning through “what if” scenario analysis for pending weather events.

• Impact & Consequence Analysis - Understanding the potential impacts and consequences of a wildfire is essential to support operational decision-making, resource prioritization, and proactive planning.

• Data Integration - WFA serves as an integration hub providing a single environment for integrating real-time tracking, detection, weather and risk data, models and technologies with no user interaction.

Authoritative Wildfire Solution

Wildfire Analyst has been adopted by CAL FIRE and electric utility companies across the Western US as their authoritative wildfire modeling platform. CAL FIRE selected Wildfire Analyst alone from more than 130 submissions to their Request for Innovative Ideas initiative. WFA has been battle tested since 2017 in California with more than 30 billion simulations conducted. It provides the definitive data source for FMAG and PSPS decision-making in the state.

Learn more about Wildfire Analyst at https://technosylva.com/products/wildfire-analyst/

FireSight

Quantify risk from each asset and calculate potential risk reduction for asset hardening.

Energy utilities across the United States increasingly rely on wildfire spread prediction models to determine the risk associated with their assets. These wildfire simulations provide consequence measures that estimate acres burned, buildings destroyed, and population impacted. However, these consequence measures are conditional on the occurrence of an ignition and do not represent the expected risk of an asset. Energy utilities must not only understand the consequences of a wildfire resulting from their assets, but also the probability of that wildfire occurring from one asset over another to efficiently prioritize their grid-hardening and mitigation efforts.

Typically, asset hardening decisions are prioritized through a risk/spend efficiency (RSE) analysis, in which the asset risk reduction is divided by the cost of the mitigation. Asset hardening budgets are finite, so it is critical that wildfire mitigation plan properly reflect expected risk from assets to efficiently reduce wildfire impacts on utilities, local communities, and the surrounding nature.

Learn more about FireRisk at https://technosylva.com/products/wildfire-analyst/firesight/