FireWatch AI
Open-source wildfire history and spread exploration
Details
- External ID
- 1263210
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Firecoach AI
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Open Source, GitHub, Climate Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Explore historical wildfire progression, inspect environmental data, and experiment with spread scenarios in an open-source research prototype. Built with React, Leaflet, TypeScript and Python. MIT-licensed code, documented data gaps and scoped contributor tasks. Research use only; not validated for emergency decisions.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Energy & climate
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source wildfire tracking and spread visualizer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the front-end map visualization in Leaflet and basic Python API are straightforward, accurate environmental data ingestion and mathematical wildfire spread modeling require specialized geospatial and physics/simulation expertise.
What it would actually take: A production version requires ingestion pipelines for satellite active fire data (MODIS/VIIRS) and weather rasters (ERA5/HRRR) processed via GDAL/Rasterio, integrated with a cellular automata or Rothermel fire spread simulation model running on a Python backend with PostGIS/Leaflet frontend. The primary difficulty lies in calibrating fuel models, slope effects, and wind vector transformations to yield meaningful predictions.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #3 of 26 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 248 days after the earliest competitor.
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