The first line of
wildfire defense.
Autonomous drone patrols and AI smoke detection for farms, ranches, and rural land, built to spot fires while they're still small enough to stop.
Speed decides how a wildfire ends.
Almost every fire can be stopped while it's small. The ones that get away are the ones nobody saw in time.
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50,000+
wildfires start in the U.S. in a typical year. Every year from 2019 through 2023 crossed that line.1
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98.9%
of fires on Forest Service land in the Pacific Northwest were contained during initial attack in 2025. The agency points to rapid detection as part of the reason.2
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$394B
a year is the low end of what wildfires cost the U.S. in property damage, health impacts, and lost income, by one congressional estimate. The high end is $893 billion.3
Every large fire starts small.
On rural land, most acres go unwatched. Scroll to see the same spark play out with and without a patrol overhead.
Ignition
A spark catches in dry grass. One person with a shovel can put it out, and a patrolling drone can already see the smoke.
Spot fire
It's spreading, but still small. A local crew can catch it if they know where to go.
Running fire
Now it takes aircraft, evacuations, and luck. Too often, this is when someone first calls it in.
How BlazePatrol works
You decide where to look. The drone and the software do the watching, and you hear about smoke as soon as it's seen.
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Draw the route
Drop pins on a map of your land in the order you want them checked, and choose when patrols run.
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The drone flies it
It takes off, works through the route, and returns to its dock, streaming camera and sensor data as it goes.
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AI watches every frame
Our detection model reviews the footage for smoke, flame, and heat, and rates how confident it is.
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You get the alert
Your phone and dashboard show where the smoke is, how sure the system is, and a live view from the drone.
One dashboard for every acre
Watch your drones, set patrol routes, and act on alerts from the web or your phone. Try a detection below.
BlazePatrolDemo property
2 drones patrolling
Select a drone to see its patrol route.
Built for land far from the nearest engine
We're starting with the people who have the most ground to cover and the fewest eyes on it.
Farms and ranches
Check fence lines, pasture, and hay storage through dry season without driving every acre.
Orchards and vineyards
Protect trees and vines that took years to establish and can't be replanted in a season.
Private forest and timber
Cover remote stands and access roads that nobody drives past on a normal day.
Homes at the wildland edge
Keep watch on the brush and hillsides between your home and open country.
Why patrol from the air
Satellites, camera towers, and ground sensors all catch fires. A patrol drone gets close, goes where the risk is, and shows you what it sees.
| Capability | Satellites | Camera towers | Ground sensors | BlazePatrol |
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| Live, close-up video when smoke appears | No | Partly | No | Yes |
| Moves to where the risk is | No | No | No | Yes |
| Heat readings from the scene | Partly | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Sized for a single property | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Watching around the clock | Partly | Yes | Yes | Partly |
Drones fly in shifts, so coverage comes in scheduled patrols rather than a nonstop feed. We're upfront about that because it shapes how patrols are planned. Next on our roadmap: predicting where a detected fire is likely to spread.
Where we're headed
We're starting small on purpose: prove detection on single properties, then build the aircraft to cover more ground.
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Now
Patrol drone for small properties
An autonomous quadcopter built on a proven drone platform, paired with BlazePatrol's detection software. Our first pilots are with farms and landowners.
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Next
BlazePatrol's own drone
A purpose-built airframe with the camera, sensors, and communications designed in from the start.
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Later
Long-range patrols
A short-takeoff fixed-wing drone that covers large landholdings and supports fire agencies.
Who's building it
Evan Girard
Founder
Originally from California, Evan has lived with the effects of wildfire firsthand. He started BlazePatrol to give landowners a way to catch fires before they turn into disasters, and leads the drone and software work while studying mechanical engineering at Rice University.
We're choosing our first pilot sites.
Tell us about your land and we'll reach out to talk through a patrol plan. Investors and fire agencies can use the same form.
- Early access to BlazePatrol drones and the dashboard
- Patrol routes planned with you, around your property
- A direct line to the team building it