COMMUNITY WARNING
Evacuation for remote communities.
Early warning that beats local broadcast. Designed for boreal catchments and WUI communities where the road out is not guaranteed.
The posture ladder
- Watch: DC > 55 or FWI > 45. Verify household contact tree.
- Plan: DC > 70 or FWI > 60. Pack go-bags, top up fuel, brief vulnerable households.
- Prepare: DC > 85 or FWI > 75. Voluntary evacuation for medical-priority, staging complete.
- Go: Any confirmed ignition within prevailing-wind footprint OR single-access road at risk of closure.
What ArchipelAI gives you
The Forest Health workspace tags community-linked catchments and surfaces the four thresholds above with 20-year context. Try it in the forestry demo. Pair with the homeowner-side wildfire preparedness playbook.
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Common questions
- What makes a community 'community-linked' in the model?
- A catchment tagged as community-linked has evacuation-relevant advisories — smoke thresholds, access-road closure risk, prevailing-wind spread — surfaced ahead of local broadcast. It's an operational tag, not just a label.
- What is the earliest reliable warning signal?
- For most boreal and WUI communities: drought code trending above 70 combined with a 10-day heat-day streak. That combination is roughly a week of lead time on a red-flag posture.
- What if the community has one access road?
- Single-access catchments need earlier triggers. We recommend a 48-hour earlier evacuation-planning threshold and a formal shelter-in-place fallback with air-filtration provisioning.
- How does smoke factor in?
- PM2.5 above 150 µg/m³ triggers vulnerable-population advisory; sustained levels above 250 warrant evacuation for medical-priority households regardless of the fire itself.
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See your address-level flood, fire, wind, heat, and outage scores — plus a 20-year outlook. No login for the demo.
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