Major wildfires are growing in frequency and destructive capacity. That’s why we enable collaborative resilience between local governments, wildland fire teams, and private sector stakeholders to improve outcomes and protect communities.
Our fire weather stations and environmental sensors are built to last and provide reliable data from the field for years.
We provide the industry’s only whole-cycle wildfire risk management, monitoring, detection, and collaboration platform.
AEM brands have been helping people anticipate, prepare for, and recover from wildfires for over 40 years.
REPORT
AEM conducted a survey with Fire Engineering during the spring of 2024 to understand the wide range of approaches and current states with regard to wildfire prevention, preparedness, detection, response, recovery, and rehabilitation across North America. Download the report today to access key insights from public sector wildland fire professionals across the country.
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We help local governments, land management agencies, energy utilities, and emergency management teams embrace a whole-cycle approach to wildfire risk management that improves detection and response times while also enabling practices that reduce the likelihood of major fires.
ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
When we created our 2024 North American Wildfire Report, we were shocked to see the inefficiency in the wildfire software space. Teams often need three or more different applications to manage the wildfire event cycle, which is probably why as many as 40% of wildfire companies aren’t using any kind of a software solution to support their wildfire efforts yet.
That’s exactly why we created AEM Elements 360, an end-to-end collaborative resilience and decision support platform for governments, businesses, and community leaders who are looking for a single software platform that can deliver ongoing monitoring, automated ignition detection, and a best-yet wealth of valuable data from the field to inform operations and increase confidence when wildfires and severe weather rear their ugly heads.
ENHANCED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
Data drives decisions, and in wildfire contexts, those decisions can be the difference between life and death for wildland firefighters and members of the surrounding community. AEM helps emergency managers and leaders in wildland fire companies build the richest possible picture of a potential wildfire ignition as it unfolds so that they can make the most informed possible decisions.
Our approach to multi-source ignition detection cross-references weather networks data, real-time visual intelligence from cameras in the field, AI smoke detection, responsive lightning alerts, air quality monitoring, and satellite hotspots to create a comprehensive snapshot of an evolving wildfire in a single software application – AEM Elements 360.
ACCURATE REAL-TIME DATA
Our Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) is the North American standard for fire weather monitoring, serving as the backbone for the National Interagency Fire Center’s (NIFC) network. Those 2,000+ stations help protect more than 700 million acres of federal public land, and that doesn’t account for the thousands of additional RAWS that local agencies and private businesses use to build wildfire resilience.
The RAWS is designed to help agencies scale fire risk monitoring networks exceptionally quickly without compromising data quality. In the early stages of network design, our quick-deploy RAWS can be installed and moved across a service territory to carry out studies and identify the best places for long-term monitoring stations. Those same mobile stations can be deployed strategically during prescribed burns or active wildfire events to increase intelligence and safety at any time.
Our partnership with Ventura County, California, demonstrates how the RAWS and quick-deploy RAWS make modernizing wildfire weather monitoring incredibly easy. Learn more at the link below.
WILDFIRE EXPERTISE
While wildfire risks are growing just about everywhere, the specific threats and challenges vary from location to location. Factors like weather, topography, ground cover, and degree of development directly impact how a potential fire might start, spread, and impact people, property, or infrastructure. We help teams understand their hyperlocal wildfire risk by blending historical and current environmental data to create a specific profile of their wildfire threats, risks, and opportunities to build resilience.
PODCAST
We specialize in helping wildfire leaders build collaborative resilience for their communities. What does that mean, exactly? It’s a model where a variety of public and private stakeholders come together to share intelligence and pool resources to increase wildfire prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities in a way that protects everybody better.
Here’s how Ben Twomey, our Director of Global Product Management for Wildfire Solutions, explains it:
To remain aware of where they face the greatest wildfire risk, Ventura County officials have created and continue to expand a network of Remote Automated Weather Stations (RAWS). But network expansion poses a chicken-and-egg problem for the county: how do you identify new at-risk when you don’t already have a fixed RAWS at the site to collect the necessary data? This is the story of how they've solved that problem.
Over the last two and a half years, AEM has worked with a variety of municipal, regional, and investor-owned energy utilities to protect their infrastructure, customers, workers, and bottom lines from the growing threat of major wildfires. The following is a composite that represents the full breadth of our rapid transformation capabilities for energy utility providers.
ESS is helping the Country Fire Authority (CFA) of Victoria, Australia better manage wildfire risk with fixed and portable versions of AEM's weather stations. Learn how the stations are helping the CFA improve its understanding of wildfire behavior, fill in gaps in Australia's weather monitoring, and enhance the safety of prescribed burns.
AEM Elements 360 is a multi-hazard weather intelligence solution and the cornerstone of the Elements Resiliency Platform.
Use advanced AI algorithms to quickly and accurately identify wildfire threats before they escalate.
Get exceptionally accurate wildfire weather data. Our Remote Automated Weather Stations are trusted in some of the world’s harshest locations.
Our Quick Deploy Remote Automated Weather Station is the fire community’s most widely used weather station for prescribed burns and temporary monitoring applications.
Confirm wildfire ignition, access imagery with weather overlay data, and see real-time threats to lives and property.
AEM's Wildfire Fuels Data delivers the world’s most advanced, dynamic fuel layers—every 10 days, anywhere on the planet.
