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11.4.2025

Protecting What Matters Most: Fire Aside Brings Communities Best-in-Class Structure Exposure Data from Vibrant Planet and Pyrologix

Our partnership with Fire Aside provides California communities with Structure Exposure Score data from Pyrologix, optimizing wildfire mitigation.

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2.4.2026

New Study Unveils How Communities Can Tackle Wildfire Risk Reduction Faster, Together, and With Clearer Priorities

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Community Wildfire Management

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1.9.2026

Seeing How Communities Are Built—and Why It Matters for Wildfire

A story produced by Vibrant Planet Data Commons, a nonprofit engine that accelerates the commissioning of cutting-edge environmental science and data analytics at Vibrant Planet.

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Community Wildfire Management

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11.4.2025

Protecting What Matters Most: Fire Aside Brings Communities Best-in-Class Structure Exposure Data from Vibrant Planet and Pyrologix

Community Wildfire Management

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9.22.2025

The Forest Fire Paradox: Remove Trees to Protect Forest Carbon Sinks

Fire Resilience

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Land Management

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How the Central Colorado Forest Collaborative is swiftly preparing for wildfire resilience

Landscape resilience

Placer County’s Collaborative Approach to Community Wildland Fire Resilience

Landscape resilience

Marin County Develops 11 Essential Projects to Reduce Fire Risk

Community wildfire resilience

Truckee Fire Protection District Builds Consensus in Record Time

Community wildfire resilience

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New Study Unveils How Communities Can Tackle Wildfire Risk Reduction Faster, Together, and With Clearer Priorities

A new peer-reviewed paper in Ecological Modelling details how the Vibrant Planet Platform enables faster, transparent, and collaborative wildfire risk mitigation—helping communities move from static risk maps to prioritized, fundable projects at scale.

Vibrant Planet at the Planet’s Largest Meeting of Earth Scientists

Vibrant Planet scientists presented world class data and science at the American Geophysical Union that will strengthen our understandings of the impacts of fire and forest management.

Unleashing the Potential of Carbon: Blue Forest and Vibrant Planet Prove Carbon Revenues Can Cover Wildfire Risk Mitigation in California

New research shows forest treatments can increase carbon storage by 35 metric tons per acre while reducing wildfire severity by 78%. Carbon revenues could fund California's $2B annual forest management needs.

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2.4.26

From Static Assessments to Actionable, Collaborative Mitigation Priorities: Peer-Reviewed Study Shows How the Vibrant Planet Platform Modernizes Wildfire Risk Planning

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9.3.25

New study shows proactive forest management reduces high severity wildfire by 88% and stabilizes carbon during extreme droughts

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6.27.25

New Research Shows How Wildfire Mitigation Efforts Could Save Communities Billions in Damages

New research and modeling published by Vibrant Planet Data Commons (VPDC) and Megafire Action shows how wildfire risk mitigation projects could deliver billions in avoided losses for seven wildfire-susceptible communities across the US.

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