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Escalating megafires and their climate impacts are a crisis without borders.
Every biome on Earth, including tropical rainforest, tundra, and permafrost, are now threatened by disaster fires on every continent except Antarctica.
Fort McMurray / Leira / La Grande Reservoir / Black Summer /
Southeast Asian Haze / East Fork / Attica / Nuevo León /
While fire is a natural part of our planet’s ecology, wildfires are changing, and rapidly. Decades of efficient suppression have produced fuel conditions capable of explosive megafires, which burn hotter, spread faster, and do irreparable damage to the landscape.
This planetary crisis requires radical collaboration on a global scale.
A new era of fire monitoring requires new data, additional tools, and targeted technology.
Introducing Earth Fire Alliance— a fire-focused 501c3
Purpose Built, Mission Focused
Founded in 2024, Earth Fire Alliance is committed to accessible fire data from and for the entire planet. Through fast action and radical collaboration we deploy solutions that reframe our shared role with fire as stewards of our environment. These are the tenets that guide our work:
Our Purpose
Earth Fire Alliance is founded on the belief that high-fidelity data, equitably accessible on a global scale, will transform humanity’s collective approach and relationship to fire.
Our Mission
Observe all of our planet’s fires comprehensively.
Serve fire-response communities worldwide with rapid alerts and real-time updates.
Conserve Earth’s ecosystems and biodiversity by informing nature based climate solutions.
Our Vision
Earth Fire Alliance believes a united global response to the wildfire crisis is possible, and that a data-driven response will expand our focus and funding from reactive suppression, to proactive stewardship, that includes resilience initiatives and beneficial fire practices.
50+ Community Partners
Our technical design requirements were shaped directly by inputs from a growing community of fire chiefs, climate scientists, and fire agency partnerships in the Western US, Australia, and around the world.
4+ Technical Collaborators
Radical collaboration means looking beyond any single source solution. Earth Fire Alliance and collaborator Muon Space work hand-in-hand to incorporate the best available technical solutions and partners.
5+ Philanthropic Supporters
The Moore Foundation, Google.org, and Minderoo Foundation lead the initial funding effort to establish Earth Fire Alliance as a collaborative force serving the global fire community.
A preview of our solution
FireSat, built from the ground up with and for the fire community.
FireSat is a first of its kind satellite constellation focused specifically on fire, fire conditions, and fire’s ecological effects. Based on over 200 conversations with frontline chiefs and incident commanders, FireSat meets expressed needs. Our technology is more than a better version of what’s out—and up—there. It’s a never-before-seen strategic data tool specifically designed to enable the transformation from a century-old suppression model to a beneficial fire model—without putting communities in harm’s way.
a new era in fire monitoring
Meter-scale resolution. Real-time revelations.
This wildfire focused system will provide a consistent, accurate, and comprehensive view of fire activity for every fire on Earth. FireSat will deliver near-real time data within minutes of observation, and that’s just the start…
50 fire-focused satellites
Global intelligence
Data in minutes, not days
Precise location alerts
FireSat sees more
FireSat’s advanced multi-spectral observation goes beyond standard practices, offering unparalleled insights into fire dynamics.
Visible — Near Infrared
Imaging in 5 wavelengths means more trustworthy alerts for first responders, and more accurate intensity / perimeter maps for incident commanders.
Shortwave — Midwave Infrared
Near and short wave infrared views enable holistic monitoring of pre and post fire conditions like fuel levels and plant regrowth.
Longwave Infrared
Heat based images provide critical information about a fire’s size, heat, and movement can be seen even at night, through smoke, or when a fire is too hot for human surveillance.
Our expert community tells us that the right data—collected by the FireSat Constellation before, during and after every fire on Earth—will have a transformational impact on humanity’s approach to fires and our role in a changing environment. We believe this data must be accessible to agencies around the world. Our accomplishments speak volumes, but together we can do more.
“FireSat drives for me the critical needs identified by this multidisciplinary task force The time is right, and the direct and peripheral impact of these data collections cannot be overstated.”
André Coleman / Chief Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory / Member, WhiteHouse First Responder Task Force
“FireSat ushers in a new era of persistent intelligence. This transformative technology serves firefighters, researchers, and the public, providing critical data akin to the convenience of weather updates on our smartphones."
Josh Wilkins / Fire Captain, Retired / San Bernardino County
Public, private and philanthropic collaboration means the best of both worlds. Here’s why.
These partnerships ensure accessible global data, reliable delivery, and sustained resources for all jurisdictions and federal fire agencies across the US. See our achievements and goals below.
Seed funding raised for planning and risk reduction.
