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Support XPRIZE Wildfire, a competition to radically reinvent how we detect and suppress destructive wildfires.
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Support XPRIZE Wildfire, a competition to radically reinvent how we detect and suppress destructive wildfires.
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Support XPRIZE Wildfire, a competition to radically reinvent how we detect and suppress destructive wildfires.
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$11,007,009
IN TOTAL PRIZE PURSE RAISED SO FAR
XPRIZE Wildfire is a 4-year, $11 million competition incentivizing the innovation of firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires so that humanity and beneficial wildfire can safely co-exist. The prize aims to transform current wildfire management approaches through the development of new technologies that can rapidly and accurately detect, characterize, and respond to wildfires before they become destructive.
Meet The Teams
SWIFT State College, United States
AeroWatch Barcelona, Spain
Agni Dresden, Germany
Anduril Costa Mesa, United States
BAMF Drones Inc Newport News, VA, USA, United States
BlackBee Robotics Blacksburg, United States
Crossfire College Park, United States
Data Blanket Bellevue, United States
Dryad Berlin, Germany
Ember Flash Aerospace Santa Cruz, United States
Fire Drone Tel Aviv, Israel
Fire Foresight Hobart, Australia
FireFly San Francisco, United States
FireSwarm Solutions Squamish, Canada
FlameJackets Atlanta, United States
FLARE-X Austin, United States
GatorX Gainesville, United States
Green Tech Innovation Monterrey, Mexico
N5SHIELD Rockville, United States
Optect - Optical Detection Bath, United Kingdom
Pyr-Stop Bristol, United Kingdom
Rain Alameda, United States
RAINDROPS Trondheim, Norway
Rangair Beaverton, United States
Skyspec Tokyo, Japan
Think Circuits Oakland, United States
Wild-Flyer Huntsville, United States
Wildfire Quest San Jose, United States
Windracers Environmental Southampton, United Kingdom
DeepFire Baton Rouge, United States
Ember Guard -- a Wildfire Watch Group Palo Alto, United States
Fire Eye Hillsboro, United States
Generative Intelligence Mijas, Spain
International Space Wildfire Institute (ISWI) San Francisco, United States
Loft Orbital Toulouse, France
Mayday AI (Guardian Space) Darmstadt, Germany
MyRadar Orlando, United States
Orbital Sidekick San Francisco, United States
Redback Fire Team Melbourne, Australia
SIRIUS Wildfire Alliance London, United Kingdom
Snuffed Flagstaff, United States
Woolpert DI Cloud Geo Team Ladera Ranch, United States
- Qi - Hummelstown, United States
1to1Robotics LLC Hackensack, United States
8H8 Fire Shield Network (8H8-FSN) Cairo, Egypt
Aerial Blue Atlanta, United States
AgniSphere New York, United States
ALCHERA X Los Angeles, United States
AlphaSurveyor Berkeley, United States
Ambee Bangalore, India
Amhazing Jerangle, Australia
Amplicam X Mississauga, Canada
Atlas Autonomous Systems Puyallup, United States
Autonomous Firefighting McKinney, United States
Autonomously Track Down Wildfires College Station, United States
Autosky Aerospace Bengaluru, India
Benki Bengaluru, India
DecaMap Dublin, Ireland
Delphire Inc Pasadena, United States
DRONEFORCE Athens, Greece
Duke Roboscouts Durham, United States
ELTUH Floral Park, United States
EmberEye Palo Alto, United States
Extingo Toronto, Canada
Fibonacci Fire Project Reno, United States
FireAI Sydney, Australia
FireBot Labs Powered By Ostrich Air San Jose, United States
FireDrone (IS-WiN Lab) Clemson, United States
FireFly Lawrence, United States
Firefly Durham, United States
FireNet Gainesville, United States
FireSpotter Sydney, Australia
FireTracking Noumea, France
FireWard Vancouver, Canada
FoPro Linz, Austria
GainForest Zürich, Switzerland
GeoSynergy Brisbane, Australia
GGI San Ramon, United States
Granular Boston, United States
HoZe Solutions GmbH Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Indicus AI San Ramon, United States
Kangaroos Sydney, Australia
leitantech Chengdu, China
Lila Software Studio Godoy Cruz, Argentina
Lux Aerobot Alma, Canada
Master Blaster Sparks, United States
Mejor Technologies Amersfoort, Netherlands
Mission - Clear The Air Washington, United States
Narix FSD Christchurch, New Zealand
Orbital Flamebusters Austin, United States
Pantera Jundiaí, Brazil
Pegasus Edmonton, Canada
Play With Technology Lebanon, United States
PROBOTEK Corfu, Greece
Project Grouse Adelaide, Australia
Pyro Patrol Singapore, Singapore
Radical Seattle, United States
Resilitix Houston, United States
robospatiale Nikaia, Greece
Sceye Moriarty, United States
Shanti Hampton, United States
Sherpy New York, United States
SkyTL Tampa, United States
superloco Fremont, United States
SWAT3 Boncarbo, United States
TBD Aerospace Atlanta, United States
Team UC WISE Davis, United States
Team Wildfire Sydney, Australia
Tempest Fireworx Houston, United States
Terra Space Lab Tel Aviv, Israel
The Adjacent Possible Helsinki, Finland
Tinkery Sydney, Australia
UBC-fireEdge Vancouver, Canada
VANGUARD DRONES Athens, Greece
Vest Aero Tech Kristiansund, Norway
VIIRS Nightfire Golden, United States
Wailand Fall City, United States
WhiMPLaSh Palgrave, Canada
Wildfire Harness Technologies (WFHT) Miami, United States
Wildfire Satellite Watch INC Skokie, United States
Wildfire Sensor Star Fort Lauderdale, United States
WSF Aerial Wildland Fire Suppression System San Diego, United States
X-fireFS Auburn, United States
XBIRD Thermal Mapping and Measurement System Ann Arbor, United States
Xero Industries Essex, United States
xFlight Dallas, United States
xFRD Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
XiniX AI Brussels, Belgium
ZIRCON FIREFLY TM Cairns, Australia
XPRIZE Wildfire is offered in partnership with Co-Title Sponsors Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Pacific Gas & Electric, Presenting Sponsor Minderoo Foundation, Bonus Prize Sponsor Lockheed Martin and Supporting Sponsors Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Costa Navarino, American Family Insurance, Fairfax Financial, the Roddenberry Foundation, and individual benefactors.
PRIZE CATEGORIES
The competition is designed to synergistically transform how fires are managed and fought across two tracks:
$5M Space-Based Wildfire Detection and Intelligence Track (Track A) will address the greatest barrier to how we currently fight fires by rapidly and accurately detecting all fires across a vast and remote area and transmitting data to ground stations.
$5M Autonomous Wildfire Response Track (Track B) will transform how fires are managed and fought by rapidly and autonomously detecting and completely suppressing a destructive, high-risk fire in an environmentally challenging area with dramatically greater speed, accuracy, and precision than current best-in-class solutions, leaving any decoy fires untouched.
$1M Lockheed Martin Accurate Detection Intelligence Bonus Prize.
THE IMPACT
XPRIZE Wildfire will spur innovation across a wide range of firefighting technologies, transforming the practices of a crucial industry that have not seen major change in a century. The resulting technology will dramatically improve the detection and suppression of destructive wildfires, enabling safe management of all high-risk fires.
I’ve seen firsthand the devastating effects of wildfires on our local communities in California and around the world. I am thrilled to work with XPRIZE again and to see my early funding grow into a large prize that will attract innovative solutions to this challenging problem.
Dr. Richard Merkin
Seed Donor for XPRIZE Wildfire
The Challenge
Extreme wildfires are on the rise, and globally, the severity of wildfires is increasing. Extreme wildfire events are only around 3% of all wildfires – but drive over 80% of total associated fire damages. Often, wildfires start in hard-to-reach areas and are fueled by climate change-related extreme weather – like severe drought, extreme winds, and heat waves.
Without solutions to detect and manage them at inception, they will continue to threaten fragile landscapes with deforestation and habitat degradation and lead to the loss of biodiversity, human infrastructure, and even human lives. Innovation in wildfire management approaches hasn’t kept pace with mounting challenges, and new technologies aren’t globally accessible.
We need new, innovative tools to keep up with the increasing threats and mounting challenges posed by extreme wildfire events. XPRIZE Wildfire teams will develop solutions to detect and assess high-risk fires in 10 minutes or less – a rate 4x faster than current best practices – shortening the time between detection and rapid response to inform management practices and minimize negative impacts.
How to Win
In the Space-Based Wildfire Detection & Intelligence track, teams will have one minute to accurately detect all fires across a landscape larger than entire states or countries, and 10 minutes to precisely characterize and report data with the least false positives to decision-makers on the ground.
The $1M Lockheed Martin Accurate Detection Intelligence Bonus Prize incentivizes innovations in accurate and precise detection of wildfires.
Get Involved
In today’s climate, nearly everyone is at risk of being affected by extreme wildfires and their environmental, social, and economic impacts such as air pollution, rising CO2 emissions, and increased financial burdens for fire-impacted communities. Consider adding $10, $100 or more to the prize purse. Your donation will support the winning teams of this competition – the innovator who helps solve the challenge of shortening the time between detection and rapid response to inform management practices and minimize negative impacts.* All donations are tax-deductible. As a donor, you’ll receive key benefits and updates.
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