Free · Ad-free · Bilingual EN / FR

Live wildfire intelligence and preparedness for BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

Active fires, perimeters, satellite hotspots, air quality, road closures, evacuation alerts, fire-district overlays, smart push alerts, and a Fire Guard preparedness hub — sourced only from official Canadian agencies. Free forever, with province-by-province expansion planned as the community grows.

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Join the Android closed beta

Approval usually within 4 hours.

Use the Gmail address linked to your Android phone — that’s the account Google Play checks for tester access.

A companion to 911 and official emergency services — not a replacement.

WildFire-Ready map showing active fires, satellite hotspots, and air quality across BC and Alberta — Live wildfire map · BC + Alberta Fire Guard — six preparedness checklists Current fire restrictions for your region Home Ignition Zone — self-assessment

Fire Guard tab with six FireSmart-aligned preparedness checklists — Live wildfire map · BC + Alberta Fire Guard — six preparedness checklists Current fire restrictions for your region Home Ignition Zone — self-assessment

Help us grow WildFire-Ready

Two simple ways to keep WildFire-Ready free for everyone.

WildFire-Ready is independent, free of advertising, and built only from official Canadian sources. Two small actions go a long way toward keeping it that way and reaching more communities before the next bad season.

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Get WildFire-Ready

Two ways to use WildFire-Ready today.

WildFire-Ready is live on the web and the Apple App Store — free, no ads, no required account. Android is in closed testing; request an invite below.

WildFire-Ready desktop dashboard preview

LIVE · Any browser

Open the web application in any browser.

No download is required. The web dashboard runs in any modern browser on Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS, iPad, and Android tablets — useful for monitoring conditions across the region from a larger screen.

One click. Loads in seconds. Always the latest version.

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WildFire-Ready iOS application — your wildfire safety companion

LIVE · iPhone & iPad

Download WildFire-Ready from the App Store.

WildFire-Ready is live on the Apple App Store. Tap the button to install — free, no account required, available across Canada.

Live on the App Store — no invitation code required.

Get it on the App Store →

Free forever. No ads. No in-app purchases. Built only from official Canadian government feeds.

Join the Android testing group.

The Android beta is invite-only while we finish testing. Enter the Gmail address tied to your Google Play account and we'll send a tester invite — Google Play requires a Gmail-linked account to join a closed test group.

Official data sources BC Wildfire Service · Alberta Wildfire · NASA FIRMS · Environment and Climate Change Canada · DriveBC · 511 Alberta

Community

Join the WildFire-Ready Discord.

We're building this in public, with the people who use it. Beta testers, FireSmart folks, mappers, developers — anyone fire-curious is welcome. Come help shape what ships next.

Beta feedback — what's broken, what's missing, what worked
Community think tank for feature requests and what to build next
Direct line to the developer — no tickets, no bots, no marketing

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Free server. The app stays accountless — a Discord account is only needed for the chat itself.

What's in the WildFire-Ready app: live wildfire map, WatchTower for any saved place, WildFire-Ready briefings in Public and Tactical modes, smart push alerts, evacuation alerts, aircraft over fires with no-drone reminders, Fire Guard preparedness, and a companion web dashboard. Built for BC and Alberta with coast-to-coast expansion planned. — The application is built and ready for BC + Alberta. Every layer is sourced from the agency that publishes it. Province-by-province expansion is planned as the community and support grow, with the goal of coast-to-coast coverage within the next year or two. Features include: a live wildfire map with active fires, perimeters, satellite hotspots from NASA FIRMS, AQHI air-quality markers, road closures, fire-district overlays, and per-fire wind arrows; WatchTower for pinning any place and receiving a tower-level briefing with weather, Fire Weather Index codes, terrain, fires in radius, road closures, air quality, and active fire bans; WildFire-Ready briefings in Public mode for homeowners and Tactical mode using NRCan FBP fuel-type lookup with CWFIS Fire Weather Index codes and ECCC weather for CFFDRS-bracketed rate-of-spread reasoning; smart push alerts opt-in by category; live evacuation orders and alerts from EmergencyInfoBC, Alberta Emergency, and Alert Ready; aircraft over fires within roughly fifty kilometres of an active fire, with no-drone reminders; Fire Guard preparedness with FireSmart-aligned checklists, a seasonal knowledge library, and an evacuation-kit builder; and a companion web dashboard at wildfire-ready.ca with precipitation radar, GOES smoke, lightning, Sentinel-2 burn scars, and PurpleAir.

For sponsors and grant funders. What we can promise: free forever, no ads, no paywall, no in-app purchases; bilingual English and Canadian French at launch; official Canadian government feeds only; privacy-first with no accounts or tracking; companion to 911 and provincial emergency services, never a replacement. What partnership funds: engineering and ongoing maintenance; Indigenous-language localization beyond EN and FR; hardware such as tablets and kiosk displays for evacuation reception centres; province-by-province expansion starting with Saskatchewan, Yukon, and NWT toward coast-to-coast coverage; independence from advertising and surveillance funding. What we won't do: no ads inside the app ever, no sponsored content or paid prioritization, no white-labelling, no selling user data, no claims about user counts before launch. Non-profit incorporation is in progress.

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“Residents in wildfire-exposed communities shouldn't have to bookmark seven government dashboards just to know whether a fire near them is growing. They should be able to open one app, see what's burning, and see what to do.”

Jeffery Parr · Founder, WildFire-Ready · Read more

Companion to 911. Government feeds can be delayed or incomplete. Always confirm critical details with the authoritative source before acting, and in an emergency call 911.