FireLine Trip Planner
A trip planner for campers, boaters, hunters, and paddlers that overlays active wildfire perimeters, smoke forecasts, and agency closures onto the route so outdoor plans are checked before you drive.
Outdoor recreation enthusiasts in fire-prone regions planning weekend trips
- Live wildfire perimeter overlay from NASA FIRMS / NIFC / USFS feeds
- Smoke and AQI forecast along your route with bad-air rerouting
- State agency closure feed (parks, waterways, wildlife management areas)
- Saved-trip alerts that ping you if a new fire starts near your planned dates
Arkansas Game Wardens are publicly reissuing boating-safety reminders after severe-fire responses, and summer is peak fire/recreation overlap; people Googling 'severe fire' near CA/AR are making real outdoor decisions.
Watch Duty has heavy real-user reviews explicitly citing life-saving evacuation value and outdoor decision-making, and arrived.online publishes smoke-season trip-planning content, but search for dedicated fire+camping trip planners returns nothing.Watch Duty: Wildfire & Floods - Ratings & Reviews - App Store ↗Wildfire Travel Planning: Pack for Smoke, Stay Safe ↗
Generic route planners (Komoot, Wanderlog, Gaia, Outdooractive, TrailPackr) have no fire overlay; Watch Duty tracks fires but does no route planning; onX has a wildfire map but it's a feature within a $100/yr offroad/backcountry app, not a trip planner — no direct competitor bundles fire perimeters + smoke forecast + closures into a trip-planning UX.Wildfire Tools | Real-Time Fire, Smoke & Weather Maps | onX ↗The Best Route Planner for Cycling, Walking, Hiking and Running | Komoot ↗
onX Backcountry/Offroad and Gaia GPS prove users will pay $60–$100/yr for outdoor mapping, but fire-awareness is likely a feature bundled into a broader outdoor app rather than a standalone subscription; standalone fire-trip-planner willingness-to-pay is unproven.onX Backcountry Cost & Pricing Structure | onX ↗
Climate-driven wildfire expansion, stable public data infrastructure (AirNow, NIFC perimeters, NOAA smoke forecasts), and recurring summer peak overlap with recreation season support multi-year relevance.AirNow Fire and Smoke Map ↗
All required data layers (AirNow API, NIFC perimeters, InciWeb closures, NOAA smoke forecasts) are free public sources; building the route planner plus overlay is moderate complexity with ongoing data-refresh and QA maintenance burden.AirNow API Documentation ↗