A public-interest tool for wildfire-exposed communities.
A free, ad-free, bilingual wildfire app for Western Canada and 18 western US states — built as public infrastructure, not a startup.
Mission
WildFire-Ready exists to give residents of Western Canada and the western United States a clear, reliable view of wildfire risk drawn only from official government sources. The app is free, carries no advertising, and has no paywall. It is a companion to 911 and to provincial emergency services — not a replacement.
We bring fire perimeters, satellite hotspots, air quality readings, road closures, and evacuation alerts into one bilingual interface. Everything the app shows links back to the regulator or agency that publishes it, so people can confirm critical details before they act.
Coverage spans Western Canada and 18 western US states — live wildfires, evacuation alerts, and fire weather from Alaska to Texas — but the depth is deliberate: it is deepest in BC and Alberta, where WildFire-Ready was born, with full push alerting in English and Canadian French and official feeds only. As funding grows, deeper alerting region by region and Indigenous-language localization are the next steps.
Free forever
No paywall, no advertising, no in-app purchases. Independent public-interest infrastructure.
Bilingual
Full parity in English and Canadian French — switch anytime in Profile.
Official sources
Only official data — BC Wildfire Service, Alberta Wildfire, ECCC, DriveBC, and 511 in Canada; NIFC, the National Weather Service, and EPA AirNow in the US; plus NASA FIRMS.
Why this project exists
Public wildfire information is published by reliable official agencies — in Canada (BC Wildfire Service, Alberta Wildfire, ECCC, DriveBC, 511) and the US (NIFC, the National Weather Service), plus NASA FIRMS for satellite hotspots — but it lives on separate websites with different interfaces and refresh cadences. Many of the consumer apps that try to bridge that gap carry advertising, require a subscription, or rely on unofficial crowdsourced data.
WildFire-Ready is a modest attempt to close that gap. It pulls directly from official feeds, it is free forever, and it shows its sources. That posture is load-bearing: it is the reason the app can be recommended by municipal fire departments and community groups without conflict of interest.
Founder
WildFire-Ready was founded by Jeff Parr, a software developer based in Western Canada — not a firefighter or an emergency manager, but someone who lives in a wildfire-exposed region and saw that the free consumer tooling for tracking fires, air quality, and evacuation alerts was thinner than the underlying public data warranted.
The app's scope is deliberately bounded: aggregate official feeds, present them clearly, keep the interface accessible in English and Canadian French, and hedge every piece of safety-critical language back to the authoritative source. Anything the app cannot verify against an official feed, it does not show.
We can be reached at team@wildfire-ready.ca. Press, sponsorship, and partnership enquiries welcome.
Funding and structure
WildFire-Ready is independent. There are no investors, no ad networks, and no in-app purchases — and there will be none. It is sponsor- and supporter-funded, actively seeking sponsors and supporting partners aligned with its public-safety mission (see Partners).
The app launches in 2026. We are not claiming user numbers or impact figures before the app is in people's hands. Once there is real usage data, it will be reported here with its source and date.
Meet the founder
WildFire-Ready was built by Jeff Parr in Western Canada — the founder's page explains the mission, the approach, and the values behind every product decision.