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Preparing for extreme wildfire risk.

Wildfire season is getting longer and costlier. Signal4D gives utilities, landowners and agencies one proactive view — from the conditions that start fires to the exact assets in their path.

The stakes

Wildfire is a weather-driven risk.

Ignition and spread are driven by a handful of conditions. Watch them together — across your territory and ahead in time — and you can act before a spark becomes a catastrophe.

HeatWindLow humidityLightningHuman causes

What Signal4D detects & alerts on

  • Red-flag fire-weather conditions
  • Lightning strikes, in real time
  • Satellite hot spots from NOAA & NASA
  • Compound events — red-flag + lightning + hot-spot

It pinpoints precise impact

  • The specific section of power line at risk
  • The moving assets affected
  • Specific locations, with timing

Example compound alert: a red-flag warning and a lightning strike, followed by satellite hot-spot detection — on a specific power-line segment.

The common operating picture in action

From red-flag warnings to active fires — on one screen.

OmniWatch map of Washington with wildfire perimeters near Tonasket, Brewster and other locations
Washington wildfire overview · Product screenshot
Red Flag Warning across Los Angeles and Ventura counties, with the power lines inside the warning area highlighted
Critical fire-weather (red-flag) conditions on the grid
Cluster of satellite hot-spot detections colored by hours since detection, with a Landsat detection popup
Satellite hot-spot detection (NOAA/NASA)
Active wildfire incident with mapped fire perimeters and hot spots
Integrated NIFC active-fire data
Line of lightning strikes, colored by age, crossing power lines in the Texas Panhandle, with a strike detail popup
Real-time lightning strike detection
Satellite imagery, radar, lightning strikes and surface observations layered over a storm
High-resolution local weather
Per-powerline wind forecast dashboards for 500 kV transmission lines
Per-powerline forecast dashboards
Drive positive outcomes

What proactive resilience looks like.

Identify vulnerable grid segments before events

Prioritize inspections and pre-position crews

Reduce outage duration and speed restoration

Real-time location awareness of personnel & assets

A coordination hub across large service territories

Protect timber, land, facilities and crews

Who it's for
Energy & UtilitiesForestry & Large LandownersGovernment & Public SafetyLogistics & Supply Chain

Get ahead of fire season.

See Signal4D on your own territory, assets and data sources.

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