The wildfires in Polk County, North Carolina, have surpassed 6,000 acres and can now be seen 500 miles up by satellites, ...

Google has partnered with numerous other agencies to launch FireSat, a first-of-its-kind wildfire detection system.The Latest ...

A collaboration between Google Research, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, Silicon Valley's Muon Space, and Intel's Moore Foundation, this satellite constellation aims to spot and track each ...

The N.C. Forest Service has an interactive map showing wildfires across the state, with the size of the area involved and how ...

There’s no single pathway to managing this growing wildfire crisis, but there is something that can empower data-driven ...

OroraTech launched its first wildfire-detection satellite – FOREST-1 – in 2022, followed by one more in 2023 and another earlier this year. The company tells us that another eight are due to ...

Table Rock State Park has an active live webcam that the public can access. As of Monday morning, the camera showed a serene ...

The largest fires in WNC were the Deep Woods and Black Cove fires in Polk County not far from Hendersonville, that forced evacuations in Polk and Henderson counties along with states of emergency.

The first satellite of the Google-backed FireSat constellation successfully made it to orbit over the weekend, kicking off what promises to be a new era in wildfire detection and monitoring.

The first satellite of the innovative FireSat constellation, a collaborative project between Google and its partners, has been launched to change the face of wildfire detection and response using ...