community wildfire early warning — owned by the communities that need it
ultra-lightweight wildfire prediction models running on cheap hardware, feeding community-owned early warning systems. satellite data, weather stations, community sensor networks. cooperative members share data and the models get smarter with every season. insurance companies incentivized to fund it — communities with early warning qualify for lower premiums.
the problem
fire insurance tripled in three years. enterprise wildfire monitoring costs $100K/year. our county notification system is a phone tree that's 20 minutes behind reality. by the time we know about a fire, it's already too late to save equipment.
submitter asks $75/mo to maintain and host this.
$325/mo pledged from 5 sponsors
33%
33% toward forming a cell ($1,000/mo threshold)
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discussion(1)
lost a barn and two outbuildings in the marshall fire. our county's warning system was a text message that arrived 40 minutes after we could see the smoke. this needs to exist.