Forest health and forestry.
The canopy your grandparents cruised is not the canopy on your permit today. Here's what's moving under the trees, on what timeline, and what to do about it.
Why this hub exists
Most climate reporting for forestry is written for federal audiences at biome scale. This hub is written for the operator, the ranger, and the community: what's shifting on your block or catchment, on what timeline, and what you can act on this season and this decade. Every guide points at concrete decisions — thinning, prescribed burns, species selection, evacuation staging, insurance.
The forestry guide cluster
- Forest health monitoring — The four monitoring pillars: fire weather, drought code, canopy vigor, community early warning.
- Fire Weather Index explained — What FWI is, how to read the bands, and the thresholds that drive operational decisions.
- Drought code for forestry — Seasonal moisture deficit — the leading indicator of ignition risk and canopy decline.
- The boreal forest and climate change — How warming is reshaping the boreal, species by species — and what to expect over 20 years.
- Bark-beetle outbreak risk — Warming winters, insect survival, and the stand-level triggers that predict an outbreak.
- Timber stand climate risk — Climate-fit scoring for working stands across permit boundaries.
- Wildfire evacuation for remote communities — Early warning, access-road advisories, and staging for boreal community catchments.
- Canopy vigor monitoring — A greenness-proxy without satellite imagery — calibrated with Sentinel Bio ground truth.
- Species shift planning — 20-year climate outlook per species and replanting candidates for a warming site.
- Fuel-reduction thinning guide — When to thin, expected FWI reduction, and cost bands per hectare.
- Prescribed burn planning — Windows, drought-code thresholds, and community coordination.
Run it on your units
The Forest Health demo shows the workspace against four sample units — a boreal community catchment, a working timber block, a Sierra WUI zone, and an Acadian ridgeline. The full workspace tracks your own units with per-unit AI briefings and email alerts. Pair with Sentinel Bio, the biodegradable sensor built for the forest floor.
Common questions
- Who is this hub for?
- Forestry services managing large zones, timber operators tracking stands across permits, and remote communities in the boreal that need early warning without a full weather-service partnership. Every guide points at concrete operational decisions.
- How is climate change affecting forests right now?
- Fire seasons are longer, drought codes are trending up year over year, bark-beetle survival is rising with warmer winters, and boreal species like black spruce and balsam fir are stressed at the southern edge of their range. Effects vary strongly by biome and species mix.
- What is a Fire Weather Index?
- The FWI is a 0–100 composite score of drought, heat, wind, and fuel flammability. It's the operational standard for staging crews, issuing warnings, and staggering prescribed burns across boreal and temperate forests.
- Can I use these guides for a timber operation and a community catchment?
- Yes. The forestry world model tags catchment zones as community-linked to surface evacuation-relevant advisories, and tags timber blocks for stand-level canopy vigor and pest pressure. Both share the same 20-year projection.
Run this on your address.
See your address-level flood, fire, wind, heat, and outage scores — plus a 20-year outlook. No login for the demo.