The Big Sky Fire Department, located in the community of Big Sky, Mont., is testing out Pano’s AI wildfire detection technology to help increase fire visibility and improve response efforts.

Big Sky is also a ski community, known for Big Sky Resort and surrounding ski lodges like Moonlight Basin and Spanish Peaks, all of which came together with BSFD to fund this mutually beneficial tech adoption.

“We mapped out high fire risk areas of the country, which really led us towards the west coast of the U.S.,” Satyam explained. “The next thing that we also looked at was innovative partners.”

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The Forest Service has continued to put out 98% of the wildfires that start, instead of letting a few burn to clear out debris.

“Our recent wildfires are telling us an awful lot about what works and what doesn’t,” said Fire Lab scientist Mark Finney. “They’re telling us the current practices, whatever we’re doing, are not protecting our wildlands, our watersheds, our timber, our habitat, our recreational values.”