Wildfire Intelligence Platform for Portugal
FugaFogo (Fuga = escape, Fogo = fire) is a comprehensive wildfire prevention, surveillance, and rescue operations intelligence platform built for Portugal. It combines satellite data, government feeds, citizen reporting, and AI analysis to create a trustworthy, real-time picture of wildfire activity.
Portugal burns every year. The September 2024 fires alone burned 135,000+ hectares and killed 9 people. Existing solutions failed:
- Google Maps: Fire perimeters lagged 3-4 hours, road blocks appeared and disappeared, data vanished mid-crisis
- Government systems (ANEPC/ProCiv): Slow, bureaucratic, no citizen input, no transparency
- fogos.pt: Great community effort but limited to ANEPC data relay, no verification, no citizen reporting
FugaFogo fixes this by combining all available data sources with citizen ground truth and AI verification, creating a platform where only confirmed, verified information reaches the public.
- Real-time fire alerts with evacuation guidance
- Incident reporting (text, photo, video, GPS location)
- Offline-first — works without internet
- Emergency kit marketplace
- Critical Alerts that bypass Do Not Disturb
- Field operations dashboard (mobile/tablet)
- Report verification and truth documentation
- Fire spread estimation tools
- Operational media capture and sharing
- Integration with existing dispatch systems
- Verified intelligence dashboards
- Automated article generation from confirmed data
- Embargoed content management
- Public notice and evacuation order publishing
- AI-powered truth scoring (multi-modal: text + image + satellite + corroboration)
- Fire spread prediction (Cell2Fire + ML models)
- Portuguese NLP for report analysis (BERTimbau)
- Computer vision for fire/smoke detection (YOLOv8)
- Self-iterating data pipelines that learn and improve over time
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Web Dashboards | Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS |
| Mobile App | React Native / Expo |
| Mapping | MapLibre GL JS |
| Database | PostgreSQL + PostGIS + Redis |
| AI/ML | BERTimbau, YOLOv8, Cell2Fire |
| Notifications | FCM, APNs, Web Push, Twilio SMS |
| Payments | Stripe (Multibanco, MB WAY) |
See docs/ for comprehensive project documentation.
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Built with purpose in Portugal.