Innovation

February 12, 2026 / 2 minutes

Fire challenge unveils next wave of wildfire tools

Innovative projects that pair local communities with fire, technology and environmental industry experts have been announced as winners of the Fire Grand Challenge. The Fire Grand Challenge is a competition to advance practical tools and approaches for wildfire mitigation, response, and landscape recovery. The organisers say the finalists were selected from

February 2, 2026 / 2 minutes

Big-tech companies pool their strengths for wildfire innovations

Four industry heavyweights will combine resources in a $100 million push for advance early detection and coordinated response to wildfires. Lockheed Martin, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Salesforce and Wells Fargo have formed a joint venture in artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and other technologies “to detect, prevent and fight wildfires”.

December 13, 2025 / 2 minutes

Quest for ‘Holy Grail’ of wildland firefighting safety awarded NASA contract

For a decade before Wildfire Today Founder and wildland firefighting stalwart Bill Gabbert’s death, he wrote numerous articles on what he called the “Holy Grail of wildland firefighting safety.” Gabbert described this Grail as a system that could track the real-time location of firefighters and the wildfire they were fighting.

November 13, 2025 / 1 minute

An ‘iron dome’ to suppress wildfires

Taking inspiration from the Iron Dome air defense system that intercepts, targets and destroys incoming rockets to Israel, the newly developed FireDome aims to protect communities from wildfire attack by detecting, targeting and suppressing spot fires before they grow big. FireDome recently demonstrated its system that features a large AI