BlazeRadar

API live — api.blazeradar.org Mobile app in development Pre-revenue
Vibewright Labs LLC · July 2026

Real-time wildfire intelligence for the whole United States — one clean API over every federal fire feed, a free consumer app on top, and business-grade alerting sold to the people who can't afford to look away.

The asset

Five verified live data layers, normalized from messy government sources (NIFC/WFIGS incidents and perimeters, Genasys evacuation zones, NWS alerts, FEMA shelters, CAL FIRE) into a single GeoJSON API with TLS, refresh cadences, and a debug map. Values validated against Watch Duty on live incidents. The incumbent's moat is human curation — ours is the best automated layer stack, which scales with servers, not staff.

5live layers in production, full-US coverage
~500active US incidents tracked at any July moment
36,892named evacuation zones nationwide

Live now — the map, running on production data

This is not a mock-up: the frame below is the platform itself, streaming current incidents, perimeters, evacuation zones, and alerts from the production API.

Interactive: zoom to any incident for size, containment, and evacuation status. Full screen at api.blazeradar.org/debug.

Revenue — rent, lease, sell

Rent

Self-serve API tiers and portfolio-alerting SaaS. Monthly, low-touch.

Lease

White-label maps and dashboards — news embeds, county pages, co-op territories. Annual or seasonal.

Sell

Data licenses: live feed rights and the historical archive. One deal, recurring.

BuyerWhat they buyShapeTarget pricing
Developers, weather & news appsUnified wildfire APIRent$49–299 / mo
Local TV & newspaper groupsEmbeddable branded live mapLease$200–1k / mo seasonal
Rural electric co-ops, small munisTerritory threat dashboardLease$5–25k / yr
Property managers, campgrounds, resortsPortfolio alertingRent$99–499 / mo
Corporate security / duty-of-careAlert feed into existing toolsRent$10–50k / yr
Risk-intel platformsBlazeRadar as a data sourceSell$25–100k / yr
Insurers, reinsurers, insurtechLive + historical perimeter dataSell$10k–100k+ / yr

Product roadmap

  • Daily-use layers: smoke & air quality (AirNow, HRRR), wind, red-flag warnings — relevance beyond the fire line.
  • Earlier detection: NASA FIRMS satellite hotspots; lightning-strike ignition watch.
  • Fan-favorite: firefighting aircraft tracking from public ADS-B.
  • Community ground truth: attested in-app photo capture — GPS + timestamp verified at the camera, AI-moderated, licensable to media.
  • B2B data: historical burn scars, address-level risk scores, perimeter growth archive.

Why now

  • Peak fire season (July–October) makes embeds and dashboards urgency purchases this quarter.
  • The historical archive compounds from the day recording starts — it cannot be backfilled by a later entrant.
  • Consumer app rides free as top-of-funnel and credibility; every paid product reuses the same platform.
Gate 1 — data rights. The evacuation-zone feed has no published terms of service; a licensing check is required before that layer is resold.
Gate 2 — positioning. Everything sells as business intelligence, not life-safety alerting; liability postures differ completely.