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Open-source wildfire history and spread exploration
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: environmental and geospatial analytics software · 124 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▼ -7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Energy & climate
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Climate Tech
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 58 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 59 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
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