Wildfire intelligence,
built on official data.

Track every active fire perimeter, every NWS warning, every smoke plume — and quantify long-term wildfire risk for any U.S. address. The same federal data wildland firefighters and underwriters rely on, in a map you can read in seconds.

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Free to download Refreshed continuously NIFC, NASA, USFS, USGS
Our mission

Wildfire risk
shouldn't be a
guessing game.

Tower 5 ingests every federal wildfire dataset into a single national map and a per-address risk profile. Homeowners, underwriters, and first responders all see the same picture, and every number traces back to a federal source you can verify.

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See every wildfire in the U.S., right now.

Active perimeters from WFIGS, satellite hotspots from NASA FIRMS, smoke plumes from NOAA HMS, and weather warnings from NWS — all on one map, refreshed continuously.

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The scale
of impact

Communities, ecosystems, infrastructure, and economies face a growing wildfire crisis. Tower 5 exists because the gap between “the data we have” and “the people who need it” is still bigger than it should be.

99M+
Americans living in the Wildland-Urban Interface1
$893B
Annual U.S. economic cost of wildfires in 20232
62K
Average wildfires per year in the U.S. (2020–2024)3
7.3M
Acres burned annually in the U.S. (2020–2024)3
1 USGS SILVIS Lab, U.S. Wildland-Urban Interface, Radeloff et al. (2023). silvis.forest.wisc.edu
2 U.S. Joint Economic Committee, “The Costs and Benefits of Reducing Wildfire Risk” (2024).
3 National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Year-to-Date Wildfire Statistics. nifc.gov/fire-information/statistics
What you see on the map

Every layer that matters,
none of the noise.

Each section of the map is built around a question you might actually have — what's burning, how bad could it get, what's the weather doing, where can I go.

What's burning right now

Active perimeters at the polygon level, satellite hotspots at the pixel level, and Red Flag warnings overlaid where conditions could spread.

  • Active Perimeters
  • FIRMS Hotspots
  • Red Flag Warnings
  • Smoke Plumes

How dangerous it could get

USFS Hazard Potential, NCDP climate-projected risk for 2050 & 2100, today's NFDRS Energy Release Component — the indices fire crews actually watch.

  • Hazard Potential
  • Future Risk (2050)
  • ERC Index
  • Historical (100yr)

The weather that drives fire

Wind direction, gust speed, air temp, current and forecast rainfall, plus the U.S. Drought Monitor — everything that turns spark into spread.

  • Wind & Gusts
  • Air Temperature
  • Rain (72h forecast)
  • Drought Monitor

Help — and ignition sources

Fire stations and hospitals when you need help. Hazard shelters when you need to evacuate. Power lines, because that's where most modern wildfires start.

  • Fire Stations
  • Hospitals
  • Hazard Shelters
  • Power Lines
Be ready when it counts

From "what's that smell" to "we're leaving in 10."

Tower 5 was built around the moments that actually matter — the early signal, the planning window, and the response.

01 — PREPARE

Know your area before fire season starts.

Hazard Potential, climate-projected risk, and historical fire perimeters tell you what you're living with — and what to plan for.

02 — TRACK

Watch developing fires in real time.

Active perimeters, satellite hotspots, smoke advection, and Red Flag warnings — the live operational picture, no scrolling required.

03 — RESPOND

Find the closest help, fast.

One tap brings up the nearest fire station, hospital, or evacuation shelter — with capacity, status, and contact info.

Powered by official agency data
NIFC
NASA FIRMS
NWS
NOAA HMS
USFS
USGS
FEMA
U.S. Drought Monitor
For risk & underwriting teams

Property-level wildfire risk,
quantified per address.

Tower 5 turns the federal wildfire data stack — USFS hazard ratings, USGS WUI classification, LANDFIRE surface fuels, NCDP climate burn-probability projections, historical fire perimeters — into a single property-level risk profile your team can use to write, price, or decline a policy.

01

Search any U.S. address

Pulls every federal layer that matters for wildfire underwriting — Wildfire Hazard Potential, WUI tier, surface fuel model, climate-projected burn probability, and the closest historical fire perimeters — keyed to a single coordinate.

02

Built on federal sources

No proprietary risk score. Every number is sourced from a named, citable agency dataset (USFS RDS-2015-0047, USGS SILVIS, LANDFIRE FBFM40, NCDP burn probability). Audit-friendly for regulators and reinsurers.

03

Export-ready

Every profile exports to PDF (underwriter workpaper format) and CSV (portfolio-level analysis). Save a profile to your account, share a public link, or add to a structured property file.

04

Multi-platform

Same data on iOS for field assessment, on the web for desktop underwriting workflows. Premium accounts get unlimited saved properties, all advanced layers, and export tooling on both platforms.

Looking at this for a team?

Talk to us about portfolio-level analysis, API access, custom datasets, or enterprise licensing. We work directly with carriers, MGAs, and reinsurers.

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Why Tower 5

Built on the same data the agencies use.

No middleman, no scraping, no guessing. Every layer comes from the official source — refreshed continuously through our backend pipeline.

  • Real-time, not cached

    Active fires update every few hours. Warnings update the moment NWS publishes. Smoke updates with each NOAA HMS pass.

  • One tap, every layer

    Tap any fire, warning, or shelter and see its full record — perimeter size, status, sender, cause, capacity.

  • Privacy-respecting

    Your location stays on your device. No accounts, no tracking, no ads — by design.

From early users

Trusted by the people who make wildfire decisions.

From insurance underwriters to volunteer firefighters to homeowners in the WUI — Tower 5 was tested with the people whose decisions actually depend on it.

"WHP, WUI, FBFM40, climate BP — all on one screen, sourced and citable. It's the first wildfire tool I can hand a regulator without an appendix of caveats."

JM
Senior UnderwriterP&C carrier, CA

"The PDF export gives me an underwriter-grade workpaper for every property in 30 seconds. Used to be a half-hour of cross-referencing three vendor portals."

RM
Risk AnalystSpecialty MGA, CO

"The ERC and FIRMS overlays in the same view are exactly what I want when I'm pre-positioning equipment. Saves me a trip back to the laptop."

DR
Daniel R.Volunteer firefighter, OR

"During the August windstorm I had Tower 5 open the whole time. Knowing exactly which power lines were near the fire perimeter changed how I sleep at night."

MA
Maya A.Boulder County, CO

"Lives in the wildland-urban interface — first wildfire app I've used that doesn't make me cross-reference three different government dashboards before I can answer a basic question."

JL
Jenna L.Sonoma County, CA

"I work in emergency management. The hazard-shelter layer plus capacity numbers in the popup is something I'd previously had to pull from three CSVs. Huge time-saver."

AR
Alicia R.Emergency Mgmt, NM
Now on the App Store

Start tracking what matters.

Tower 5 for iOS is free, ad-free, and built on official agency data. Download from the App Store, or talk to us about a team plan for your underwriting workflow.

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On Android or desktop? Sign up at tower5.org — the web app has the same map and risk-profile features.

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