https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article/3223104/fireguard-program-enhances-national-guard-wildfire-fighting/

FireGuard Program

FireGuard uses military satellites with the National Interagency Fire Center, U.S. Forest Service and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Firefly capability to detect wildfires, notify authorities, and create products to disseminate to firefighting networks nationwide.

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Govtech: When the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills near Altadena, the Los Angeles County Fire Department did not have access to a satellite-based fire-tracking program regularly used by other agencies.

Org. type: Government / public sector
Project type: Program, Tool or platform
Country: United States of America 🇺🇸
Language(s): English
Categories: Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Satellites
Added: 2025-12-12
Last modified: 2026-08-12T14:09:47.000Z

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Issues addressed: fires
Geographic focus: United States of America 🇺🇸
Geographic focus — country: United States of America 🇺🇸

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