Press Release
7.20.2023

Vibrant Planet + Pyrologix Join Forces

Vibrant Planet has merged with Pyrologix, the wildfire analysis research firm, to provide decision-support for optimizing resource deployment to land managers working at all scales.

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TRUCKEE, Calif. (July 20, 2023) – Vibrant Planet, the end-to-end platform to help advance collaborative action and forest resilience, has merged with Pyrologix, the wildfire analysis research firm, to provide decision-support for optimizing resource deployment to land managers working at all scales, giving them more speed, agility, and power in their mission to build community and wildland wildfire and climate resilience.

This union will make it easier for NGOs, state and local governments, and federal agencies to make more effective and efficient decisions on where best to deploy limited resources for community protection and wildland restoration — thereby increasing the pace and scale of restoration.

Pyrologix is a complete wildfire analysis firm providing specialized services, including:

  • Fuels mapping. Constructs locally calibrated, seamless, up-to-date, and accurate fuelscapes for analysis and wildfire fire modeling at every scale. 
  • Hazard assessment. Conducts landscape-scale assessments of the current and future wildfire likelihood, intensity, and ember production and load using continuously variable fuel, weather, and topography inputs across the nation.
  • Exposure analysis. Intersects wildfire hazard with important resources and assets to gauge their exposure to wildfire, from the community scale to the continent.
  • Fuel treatment analysis. Resimulates hazard and exposure for proposed and alternative fuel treatment scenarios to judge their effects on the landscape to support land and resource management.

Vibrant Planet provides a powerful, science-based, end-to-end decision-making platform:

  • Connects strategic priorities with on-the-ground actions. Vibrant Planet combines disturbance modeling (fire powered by Pyrologix, plus drought and soon flooding), exposure analysis, risk assessment, treatment optimization, plan optimization and sequencing powered by ForSys — all in one package at any critical spatial or investment scale. This scalability allows decision-makers and collaborators to quickly address rapidly changing conditions  at a local, state or national level.
  • Adaptively recommends most effective plans to build community and wildland resilience. Generates “ideal” or treated fuelscapes to support fuel treatment analysis. Treatment scenarios planned in Vibrant Planet’s tool support a fundamental shift from catastrophic wildfire behavior to restorative fire by easily identifying where and how to reduce fuels and restore landscapes to strategically deploy funds, personnel and equipment, based on current conditions and management priorities. 
  • Supports effective collaboration and public communication. In a collaborative, friendly, cloud-based environment, users easily identify extreme risk areas and integrate user-determined values into community wildfire protection, hazard mitigation, and overall landscape resilience planning.

The merger was completed June 30th, 2023.

Both companies will continue prioritizing and supporting our clients throughout the integration process. 

The union will expand Vibrant Planet’s services to cover comprehensive wildfire hazard exposure risk and avoided loss analytics, as well as treatment scenario planning, predictive analytics for workforce planning, project effectiveness and resilience trends monitoring and reporting across assets and ecosystem services for fire-prone wildlands and communities. 

Contact us to find out more about our new capabilities and how they can help your organization and partners.

About Vibrant Planet

We believe we can achieve vibrant landscapes, clean water, abundant biodiversity, and safer communities by creating a common operating picture that helps teams and leaders build enduring resilience.

As a public benefit corporation (PBC) fostering positive social and environmental impact is core to our mission. Part of our public benefit is making novel data products available for scientific and educational pursuits through our nonprofit, VP Data Commons.

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