FDI Fire Danger Intelligence

FDI is being developed to turn local weather, field readings, fuel dryness, and fire behaviour guidance into clearer fire danger decisions for forestry and field operations.

How FDI works Fire decisions

Fire-focused

FDI stays focused on fire danger, fire weather, fuel dryness, and safety.

FDI remains focused on fire danger so the app stays clear, trusted, and operationally useful: fire weather, live readings, fuel dryness, fire behaviour, warnings, safety notices, and burn-planning risk.

Location-based forecast

Fire danger calculated for the field team's place and time

Forecast FDI

Pulls weather data for saved or current locations and turns it into a fire danger forecast for that place and time.

Live field readings

Allows the forester to enter on-site weather readings, including readings captured from instruments such as a Kestrel.

Built-in weather view

Gives the field team forecast weather and forecast FDI for saved locations without leaving FDI.

High FDI alerts

Provides high fire danger warnings that can notify the forester's phone when risk reaches critical levels.

Smart FDI

Fire danger should understand fuel dryness, not only recent rain.

FDI includes a Fuel Drying Index and uses that fuel condition alongside standard fire danger inputs. The aim is a smarter fire danger view that reflects how dry the fuel is, rather than relying only on simple recent rainfall assumptions.

This helps fire teams review risk in a way that is closer to what is actually happening on the ground.

01 Weather

Forecast and live readings feed the fire danger calculation.

02 Fuel drying

Fuel condition is incorporated into the risk picture.

03 Smart FDI

Fire danger is adjusted with a practical view of fuel dryness.

04 Alerts

High FDI warnings help the field team react before danger is missed.

Safety guidance

Fire behaviour and safety notices where decisions are made

LACES safety reminders

18 Watchout Situations

Expected fire behaviour by FDI level

High FDI warnings

Controlled burn risk guidance

Frost risk for burn planning

Fire decisions

Better fire danger questions, clearer field decisions

What is the fire danger here, now?

Location-based FDI helps the fire team understand risk at the actual place and time.

Can the forecast be trusted for today's decision?

Live field readings can anchor the calculation when on-site weather differs from the forecast.

How dry is the fuel?

Fuel drying and Smart FDI help the forester look beyond simple recent rainfall assumptions.

What should the fire team watch for?

Safety notices, expected fire behaviour, and high FDI alerts keep risk visible before it is missed.