A common operating picture for collaborative wildfire risk mitigation
Whether you manage wildland, community or utility risk, Vibrant Planet is your partner in planning and implementation.
Evaluate
- Understand current conditions and risks, as well as opportunities to mitigate risk while enhancing ecosystem function. Wildfire hazard and risk modeling is powered by Pyrologix, a Vibrant Planet company
- Organize your landscape into management units that react similarly to disturbances and treatments.
Design
- Develop outcomes-based plans in collaboration through real time scenario planning.
- In minutes, build sequenced projects to mitigate wildfire risk and unlock the most ecological benefit with the power of ForSys.
- Understand everything from workforce capability, biomass, workforce quantitation.
Implement
- Act on sequenced projects that prioritize within your constraints such as budget, workforce, or acres.
- Download plans to field applications for efficient contract layout.
- Coming soon: Integrate your results to streamline environmental analysis for NEPA and other regulatory processes.
Learn
- Understand the outcomes of your mitigation investment.
- Report the quantified results, beyond acres treated.
Adapt
- Understand changing priorities in a dynamic landscape.
- Coming soon: Evaluate treatment effectiveness and resilience monitoring.




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Our Platform
Evaluate


- Understand current conditions and risks, as well as opportunities to mitigate risk while enhancing ecosystem function. Wildfire hazard and risk modeling is powered by Pyrologix, a Vibrant Planet company.
- Organize your landscape into management units that react similarly to disturbances and treatments. In minutes, build sequenced projects to mitigate wildfire risk and unlock the most ecological benefit with the power of ForSys.
Design


- Develop outcomes-based plans in collaboration through real time scenario planning.
- In minutes, build sequenced projects to mitigate wildfire risk and unlock the most ecological benefit with the power of ForSys.
- Understand everything from workforce capability and quantification to biomass.
Implement


- Act on sequenced projects that prioritize your constraints such as budget, workforce, or acres.
- Download plans to field applications for efficient contract layout.
- Coming soon: Integrate your results to streamline environmental analysis for NEPA and other regulatory processes.
Learn


- Understand the outcomes of your mitigation investment.
- Report the quantified results, beyond acres treated.
Adapt


- Understand changing priorities in a dynamic landscape.
- Coming soon: Evaluate treatment effectiveness and resilience monitoring.
Start building your wildfire risk strategy
No matter where you are in the process, our platform can help you project plan and reduce risk faster.

FAQ
What is Vibrant Planet?
Vibrant Planet is a Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to fostering resilient communities and ecosystems resistant to wildfire. It helps land managers and community leaders make informed, coordinated decisions in real-time to help communities live more safely in fire adapted landscapes while improving ecological function. Vibrant Planet’s platform puts vetted and open science into decision makers’ hands to better understand current conditions, hazard, and risk, then design optimized plans for achieving community safety and management outcomes.
Who built Vibrant Planet?
Vibrant Planet, headquartered in Truckee, California, was founded by a team of remote sensing experts, applied scientists, and technology experts. The company was founded late 2020 with a broad mission to help decision makers, planners, resilience stewards and land managers plan and implement landscape resilience to avoid trillions of dollars in infrastructure loss from wildfire, while restoring the ability of natural systems to store carbon, deliver clean water, and support biodiversity, local economies, and recreational activities. Scientists and developers at Vibrant Planet harness data driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient.
What are the key features and capabilities?
Leveraging AI, remote sensing, and sound science, the platform generates scenarios in minutes recommending ecologically appropriate treatments to achieved desired outcomes in risk management and enhancement of socio-ecological resilience. Fire districts and land managers using the system can view current conditions, including wildfire and drought risk, then weigh desired outcomes, from community safety and built asset protection to carbon, water, biodiversity and recreation enhancements. Treatment scenarios are then optimized with budget, time, and acreage constraints..
Each treatment scenario provides forecasted wildfire risk reduction and the quantification of improved carbon sequestration, water quantity and quality, biodiversity, as well as predictive analytics on workforce capacity and biomass product quantification. Our hope is that this early, aggregated information helps to unlock a resilience economy where insurance, financial markets, and corporations are linked economically to resilient, thriving rural communities and ecosystems. Finally, monitoring, reporting, and visualization tools allow partners to collaborate, compare options, build consensus, track progress, and iteratively adjust strategies for improving community and ecosystem resilience.
Who can use Vibrant Planet?
Fire districts, counties, land managers, natural resource managers, NGOs, and utilities use the platform today for projects ranging from a few thousand acres up to millions of acres across land ownership boundaries and multiple watersheds.
Check out case studies on our Insights page to learn how people are using the system and coordinating actions and budgets to achieve desired outcomes.
What are the benefits of the platform?
Vibrant Planet facilitates community protection and ecosystem restoration efforts by significantly reducing the time and cost associated with project planning, while providing rich, contextualized information for decision makers across all scales. It provides a common operating picture for users to generate real-time resilience management scenarios that assess risks, calculate resourcing requirements, and predict potential benefits across the socio-ecological spectrum like infrastructure, carbon sequestration, water conservation, and biodiversity. It also facilitates productive collaboration with the ability for users to share scenarios and visualize areas of consensus and divergence. Vibrant Planet addresses the urgent need for restoring resilience to communities and ecosystems worldwide.
How do I know if the system improves planning processes?
Please reach out to our team to get a demo. You can also learn how others are using the system on our Insights and Solutions pages or case studies.
What data does Vibrant Planet use?
Predominately, Vibrant Planet is a data curator to ensure local, state, and national planners and decision makers are working with data they feel is most credible and useful. Where needed, Vibrant Planet fills gaps. When we founded the company, we saw a need for tree-level data for fine scale ecosystem health and community resilience planning so that plans could easily hand off into environmental analysis and project permitting processes.
To develop current, specific data for this purpose, Vibrant Planet has developed a foundational model using AI. The data inputs are all publicly available sources, including 3 dimensional lidar, satellite, and other 2-dimensional imagery. The result is a 3-dimensional “twin” of vegetation structure across the western US, with the the spatial specificity of lidar and the currency of satellite data. This enables us to refurbish outdated lidar with a current view of conditions, hazard and risk. Our vegetation and fuelscapes data, plus publicly available weather data, informs wildfre modeling from Pyrologix, a Vibrant Planet company.
To ensure built structure and ecological values are represented comprehensively in the platform, we curate local and national publicly available datasets for built infrastructure, hydrology, biodiversity, and recreation. We also purchase carbon data from CTREES. We work closely with specialty science partners to operationalize their data so that it can be viewed in our decision support tools, making sure that land managers and resilience planners always have the most robust science at their fingertips. To fill additional science/data gaps, we codevelop science or develop novel science internally. We make all new data products available for scientific pursuits. Learn more on our Science page and at the Vibrant Planet Data Commons.
How do I access the platform?
Please contact us and we will be happy to explore the right solution with you.
In which geographies can Vibrant Planet's methodology be used?
Our methodology can be used anywhere in the world where fire prone landscapes exist, including North America, Mediterranean Europe, parts of Australia, Turkey, Chile and other parts of Latin America, and parts of Asia. We're developing additional methodologies to map vegetation in other ecotypes for different management purposes.