Monitor Fires Near Your Assets

Once you’ve added assets, WFS helps you automatically detect when a fire is close to locations that matter to you, so you can act faster and more effectively.

🔍 Identify Assets Near Fire Clusters

The Nearby Asset Distance feature helps you quickly understand whether a fire cluster may impact your infrastructure.

When does this feature appear?

The Nearby Assets table is automatically displayed when:

• You have created at least one asset
  AND
• A fire cluster is detected within 10 km of that asset

👉 When both conditions are met, the table appears inside the cluster details panel

What the Nearby Asset Table Shows

The table displays:

• The asset name
• The distance between the fire cluster and the asset
• Updated distance measurements as the fire perimeter grows

👉 Clicking the table expands it to show all affected assets and their distances from the fire.

Continuous Monitoring

The Nearby Assets table updates automatically throughout the entire cluster lifecycle.
This allows you to:

• Track whether a fire is moving closer to or away from your assets
• Monitor risk dynamically as conditions change
  
  

⏱️ Estimate When a Fire Could Reach Your Assets

From the Nearby Assets table, you can calculate an estimated arrival time for each monitored asset. WFS automatically runs a Fire Spread simulation in the background—no manual simulation setup required.

How to Calculate Arrival Time

1. Open an active fire cluster on the map.
2. Go to the Nearby Assets tab in the cluster details.
3. Find the nearby assets table and click Calculate.
4. Review the estimated arrival time for each asset.
5. Click View Results to open the full Fire Spread simulation, including the weather model, spread forecast, fuel type breakdown, and map visualization.
6. Click Recalculate at any time to run the calculation again using the latest hotspot data.

💡 How is Arrival Time calculated?
WFS automatically runs a 6-hour Fire Spread simulation with 12 steps at 30-minute intervals in the background.

Why It Matters

This feature helps teams:

• Quickly evaluate risk to critical assets
• Prioritize suppression resources
• Plan initial attack or containment strategies

By combining Fire Spread simulations with asset monitoring, you gain a clearer understanding of both fire behavior and potential impact zones.

🔥 Combine with Fire Spread for better decisions

To go one step further:

• Use Nearby Assets to understand what is at risk
• Use Fire Spread to understand where the fire may go next

Together, they provide a clearer picture of both current risk and future impact

👉 [Learn how to use Fire Spread to anticipate fire behavior ]