EmberWatch
A personal wildfire companion for residents, second-home owners, and renters in fire-prone southern Europe — daily per-address fire risk, an offline evacuation playbook, and a family check-in that queues when the cell network jams.
Residents and second-home owners in fire-prone parts of southern France, Spain, Portugal, and Greece, plus summer renters
- Daily per-address risk score that blends Copernicus vegetation, slope, wind, and humidity
- Offline 'go bag' checklist with mapped evacuation routes from your door to the nearest safe zone
- Live PM2.5 and smoke plume alerts for your home, school, or holiday rental address
- One-tap family check-in that queues the message and sends it the moment the network recovers
The 2026 Gironde fires displaced more than 220,000 people; Copernicus and EFFIS now publish per-address fire-risk data; Mediterranean wildfires are now an annual reality rather than a once-a-decade event.
Mediterranean wildfires are now annual and intensify yearly; Copernicus EFFIS publishes the underlying risk data and Gironde-scale evacuations are recurring — but no Europe-specific consumer address-alert app has mass uptake yet, so demand is real but unproven at consumer-app scale.European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) ↗Watch Duty | Real-Time Disaster Intelligence ↗
All leading wildfire apps (Watch Duty, Frontline, WildFire-Ready, FireMap) explicitly target Western North America; EU consumer wildfire apps are thin, and the USE4FOREST project is still specialist/agency-grade, leaving a clear gap for a southern-Europe resident-facing product.WildFire-Ready — Live Wildfire Map & Alerts (Western North America only) ↗Frontline Wildfire App (US address-based alerts) ↗Portugal, Spain, France launch real-time app to monitor wildfires (USE4FOREST) ↗
Dominant competitors (Watch Duty nonprofit, WildFire-Ready ad-free) anchor expectations at free; no observed paid consumer wildfire app in Europe to validate willingness to pay — monetization is weak.Watch Duty (free nonprofit) ↗WildFire-Ready: free, ad-free, no paid placements ↗
Climate-driven Mediterranean fire season is now annual and intensifying; Copernicus/EFFIS, GWIS, and cross-border projects (USE4FOREST) are expanding public infrastructure, supporting a multi-year, possibly permanent, demand curve.EFFIS Data and Services ↗GWIS Current Situation ↗
Open Copernicus/EFFIS and NASA FIRMS feeds make core risk layers buildable, but offline playbooks, family check-in messaging that survives cell congestion, multi-country localization (FR/ES/PT/EL), and liability around evacuation guidance add meaningful product complexity.FireMap (uses EFFIS + NASA FIRMS) ↗SlashGear roundup of top wildfire tracking apps ↗