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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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1.10.2024

Why is ML Happening Now?

The AI Revolution & Climate Change, Part 2
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1.4.2024

Inside the Forest

Stories about people, places, and innovation in the movement to restore healthy ecosystems and climate resilience.
Land Management
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1.3.2024

What is the different between Artificial Intelligence(AI) and Machine Learning(ML)?

The AI Revolution & Climate Change, Part 1
Technology
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10.17.2023

Implementing the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission’s Recommendations

Wildfire Management

Case Studies

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

Publications

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.

Recent press

Press Release
2.4.26
From Static Assessments to Actionable, Collaborative Mitigation Priorities: Peer-Reviewed Study Shows How the Vibrant Planet Platform Modernizes Wildfire Risk Planning
Press Release
9.3.25
New study shows proactive forest management reduces high severity wildfire by 88% and stabilizes carbon during extreme droughts
Press Release
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.