AISIX WILDFIRE 3.0

    Advanced wildfire risk intelligence for Canada

    Canada's most advanced wildfire risk dataset: physically-based burn probability, intensity, and footprint data built on 30M+ simulated fires, helping insurers, governments, and industry assess and price wildfire risk with confidence.

    Map of Canada showing modeled wildfire burn probability, highest around the Alberta and Northwest Territories border, with elevated values across parts of British Columbia and the Prairies
    30-year cumulative burn probability, 2010–2020 baselineLower burn probability→ HigherNon-burnable
    30M+

    simulated wildfires

    15,000–30,000

    modeled fire-seasons per region

    250 m to 1 m

    resolution, down to 1 m in the wildland-urban interface

    SSP1 / 2 / 5

    climate pathways, bi-decadal to 2100

    WHY WILDFIRE 3.0

    Industry-leading wildfire intelligence for comprehensive risk assessment

    Five reasons risk teams choose a physically-based model over a statistical curve-fit.

    01

    Physically-based fire science

    Built on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction System, not a statistical curve-fit to past fire seasons, so results stay stable under changing climatic conditions.

    02

    30M+ simulated fires across 15,000+ fire-seasons

    A Monte Carlo framework that captures the full range of plausible wildfire activity, not a single deterministic forecast.

    03

    250 m resolution, down to 1 m in the WUI

    Granular wildfire insight for any location, urban, rural, or industrial, with resolution down to 1 m in the wildland-urban interface. Built-in exposure and vulnerability modeling estimates building-level loss.

    04

    Climate-adjusted projections to 2100

    Historical baseline plus SSP1, SSP2, and SSP5 climate scenarios across four bi-decadal intervals, built for adaptation and long-range risk planning.

    05

    Seamless data integration

    Available via API and data exports for underwriting, planning, and enterprise risk-modeling workflows.

    See how Wildfire 3.0 fits your underwriting, planning, or portfolio workflow.

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    KEY FEATURES

    Advanced capabilities powering our wildfire risk intelligence

    Cell2Fire2: a more accurate fire-growth engine

    Standard cellular-automata fire models systematically underestimate the size and shape of fast-moving, high-wind fires. Our proprietary Cell2Fire2 engine corrects this bias without sacrificing the simulation speed needed to run tens of millions of fires.

    • Corrects the arrow-shaped fire fronts and directional bias found in standard grid-based fire models
    • Approaches the accuracy of legacy vector-based engines at a fraction of the computational cost
    • Purpose-built to scale to national, Monte Carlo-based simulation
    See the science behind Cell2Fire2
    Prometheus— Vector-based reference engine
    Cell2Fire— Fast, but distorts fire shape
    Cell2Fire2— Fast, and matches the reference shape
    WIND DIRECTION 0°
    Prometheus simulated fire footprint on a flat C1 fuel grid with wind direction 0 degreesCell2Fire simulated fire footprint on a flat C1 fuel grid with wind direction 0 degreesCell2Fire2 simulated fire footprint on a flat C1 fuel grid with wind direction 0 degrees
    WIND DIRECTION 20°
    Prometheus simulated fire footprint on a flat C1 fuel grid with wind direction 20 degreesCell2Fire simulated fire footprint on a flat C1 fuel grid with wind direction 20 degreesCell2Fire2 simulated fire footprint on a flat C1 fuel grid with wind direction 20 degrees
    Simulated fire footprints on a flat C1 fuel grid under uniform weather, with varying wind direction.
    Aerial photo of a house with its building footprint outlined in red, overlaid with a color-coded canopy height map showing tall trees close to the building
    Canopy height around a building footprint (red outline), used to define defensible space.
    WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE

    Defensible space, defined at 1 m

    In the wildland-urban interface, Wildfire 3.0 works down to 1 m, showing how close fuel sits to each building. Defensible space is derived from ultra-high-resolution canopy height data, or you can supply measured values for individual buildings.

    High-resolution wildfire risk mapping

    Risk assessments at 250 m resolution, down to 1 m in the wildland-urban interface, delivering:

    • Burn probability and fire intensity metrics for any location
    • Historical fire occurrence dating back to the 1970s, combined with a 2010–2020 climate baseline and climate-driven future projections
    • Granular wildfire footprints for urban, rural, and industrial zones
    See Wildfire 3.0 in action

    Scientific, Monte Carlo-based modeling

    Physically based fire behavior modeling combined with probabilistic ignition and weather simulation:

    • Fire behavior simulations driven by historical climate, topography, and ignition data
    • Scenario-based projections across SSP1, SSP2, and SSP5 climate pathways
    • Asset-level exposure risk scores, built from 15,000–30,000 simulated fire-seasons per region
    • Portfolio loss metrics, including AAL, PML, and exceedance probability
    Explore our modeling approach

    Seamless integration & API access

    Integrates into insurance, financial, and municipal risk frameworks through:

    • Direct API access for automated risk-intelligence updates
    • Custom reports and datasets formatted for underwriting, planning, and policy development
    • Compatibility with enterprise risk-modeling platforms
    Request API access
    WHAT YOU GET

    Hazard, loss, and live-fire data from one consistent model

    Hazard and loss products are available for the historical baseline and for each climate pathway where applicable. Daily products reflect current conditions.

    HAZARD & RISK SCORES

    Local burn probability and risk scores
    Burn probability and risk scores for individual locations
    Regional burn probability and risk scores
    Burn probability and risk scores aggregated by region
    Burn intensity
    Fire intensity metrics for any location
    Fire footprints
    Granular wildfire footprints for urban, rural, and industrial zones
    Historical fire information
    Historical fire occurrence since the 1970s

    LOSS & REINSURANCE METRICSRolling out

    AAL and PML
    Average Annual Loss and Probable Maximum Loss for portfolio pricing and reinsurance
    Ground-up and gross loss
    Loss reported on a ground-up and a gross basis
    Net lossComing soon
    Loss reported on a net basis
    Occurrence exceedance probability
    Probability that the largest single-event loss in a year exceeds a given amount
    Aggregate exceedance probability
    Probability that total losses in a year exceed a given amount
    Event loss table and year loss table
    Event-level and year-level losses for your own analysis

    NEAR REAL TIME

    Daily fire danger and 24h hotspots
    Current fire danger and hotspots detected in the last 24 hours
    Fire alerts
    Daily fire alerts for the locations you care about
    MODEL VALIDATION

    How we know Wildfire 3.0 is right

    We keep calibration and independent validation separate, because they answer different questions.

    CALIBRATION

    Ecozone-level calibration

    Fire Weather Index and Spread Event Day parameters are tuned against 11 years (2010–2020) of satellite-observed burn area from Canada's National Burned Area Composite (NBAC).

    INDEPENDENT VALIDATION

    The 2025 wildfire season

    In the 2025 Canadian wildfire season, the locations Wildfire 3.0 ranked as highest-risk were among those subsequently affected by fire.

    INTERPRETATION

    Built for the long run, not one season

    Wildfire is a stochastic process. We recommend evaluating model performance across multiple seasons rather than any single year's fire activity.

    WHAT’S NEXT

    Under continuous development

    We update the underlying model every few months as new data and methods become available.

    Get in touch about our roadmap
    • A yearly-updated historical layer incorporating the most recent wildfire and climate data
    • Higher-resolution fuel maps derived from recent remote sensing
    • Improved local-scale ignition modeling to reduce simulation-boundary artifacts
    • Expanded vulnerability factors, including FireSmart-based risk characteristics
    • Smoke and secondary-peril modeling (evacuation, business interruption)
    CLIENT TESTIMONIAL
    “This collaboration with AISIX enables us to assist our clients with wildfire risk intelligence that supports asset-level exposure analysis and scenario-based planning.”

    Edward Olson, Partner, MNP

    See Wildfire 3.0 on your own locations

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