New to wildfire simulation?
What is wildfire simulation?
Do you need to evaluate fuel treatment effectiveness, assess community wildfire exposure, or plan forest management strategies, but don't want to wait years to validate your approach through trial and error?
That's where wildfire simulation comes in.
Create simulations of any fire scenario
From prescribed burns to extreme wildfire events—experiment with fuel types, weather patterns, topography, and suppression strategies to understand how fires will behave across landscapes and timeframes.
WISP allows you to make quick, confident decisions
WISP—a powerful wildfire simulation platform—allows you to make critical fire management decisions faster and with the confidence that comes from validated fire behavior modeling.
Rapidly simulate any wildfire scenario
From daily operational questions to long-term strategic planning, you can use wildfire simulation to enhance decision-making at every level and deliver measurable impact for forest management, community protection, and risk assessment.
Base decisions on physics, not assumptions
Wildfire simulation leverages validated fire behavior models like the Canadian FBP System. You can rapidly test different fuel treatment locations, firebreak designs, and defensible space configurations to find strategies that actually reduce fire spread and intensity.
Optimize treatments without field experiments
Real-world fire behavior experiments are dangerous, expensive, and limited. With simulation, you can test hundreds of prescribed burn scenarios, thinning patterns, and vegetation management strategies digitally before committing crews and budgets.
Forecast risk years into the future
Simulation can compress decades of fire seasons into hours of computing time. Model climate change impacts, vegetation succession, and fuel accumulation to plan forest management strategies that maintain resilience over the long term.
Test extreme "what if" scenarios
Don't just plan for average conditions. Stress-test your mitigation strategies against extreme drought, record-breaking winds, multiple simultaneous ignitions, or worst-case weather sequences to ensure your plans hold up when they matter most.
Account for stochastic fire behavior
From wind shifts to spotting events to fuel moisture variation, only physics-based simulation can capture the complex, non-linear interactions that drive real fire behavior—capabilities far beyond static hazard maps or simple risk scores.
Visualize outcomes for stakeholders
Dynamic fire simulations are far more compelling than static maps or tables. Visual fire growth animations and quantitative risk metrics help you convincingly demonstrate the value of mitigation investments to decision-makers, communities, and insurers.
Get started with wildfire simulation
How is wildfire simulation used?
Explore how professionals across industries use simulation to reduce wildfire risk and improve forest resilience.
- 🌲 Forest managers optimizing fuel reduction programs and evaluating prescribed burn windows
- 📋 Consultants conducting wildfire risk assessments and developing mitigation plans for clients
- 🛡️ Community planners designing defensible space programs and evacuation strategies
- 🏢 Insurance professionals quantifying wildfire exposure and validating mitigation measures
Learn more about WISP
Explore the features that make WISP a powerful choice for wildfire behavior modeling and risk analysis.
- ✓ Validated fire spread models with real-world fire scar comparisons
- ✓ Parallel computing for efficient large-scale landscape simulations
- ✓ Integration with weather data and fuel moisture prediction systems
- ✓ Burn probability mapping and stochastic fire scenario generation
Ready to get started?
Contact us today to schedule a demo and see how WISP's validated fire behavior modeling can transform your wildfire risk management approach.
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