Ladris Launches FuelsRx: Next-Generation Wildfire Risk Data

San Francisco, CA – August 13, 2025 – Ladris Technologies today announced FuelsRx, a prescriptive data offering designed to help governments, utilities, and land use planning authorities make better decisions about wildfire risk mitigation before the fire starts.

FuelsRx is derived from a high-resolution fire–atmosphere modeling framework originally developed by Dr. Janice Coen as part of her scientific research. It simulates wildfire behavior by resolving interactions among wind, slope, fuels, and atmospheric conditions, generating large volumes of physically based output. Unlike other tools commonly used for fuel reduction planning, FuelsRx delivers data at the spatial and temporal scales needed to resolve plume dynamics, fire line intensity, and potential heat exposure, helping identify areas that may become uninhabitable under extreme fire conditions.

This data can be further interpreted and analyzed by leading domain experts from Ladris’ Forward Deployed division. Ladris customers can now test treatment strategies and compare outcomes over time, visualizing what happens with specific fuel reductions and mitigation projects, and what happens without it.

“FuelsRx is the first significant commercial application of an atmospheric coupled fire model, which is an order of magnitude more accurate than empirical models,” said Bowen Kyle, CTO of Ladris. “This is a material step forward in customers’ ability to evaluate the tradeoffs of wildfire risk mitigation efforts.”

Built to Assess Real Tradeoffs

FuelsRx helps wildfire prevention planners, land stewards, and public safety officials prioritize mitigation projects based on fire behavior and exposure. It includes tools for:

• Modeling fire progression with and without treatment
• Mapping heat intensity along evacuation routes
• Identifying where suppression will fail without intervention
• Prioritizing treatment zones by risk, terrain, and infrastructure proximity

The product is already being used to support fuel planning efforts in Northern California, including back-analysis of recent fire behavior near Truckee, where former Emergency Manager Bob Womack helped redirect fire growth away from the town.

“Today's models show aggressive fire behavior encroaching on the Town from many directions but doesn't really show us how to mitigate specific threats," said Womack. "By using FuelsRx we can apply fuel treatments in precise locations to slow fire spread, giving us time to attack the fire safely and allow for better evacuations. The data generated by FuelsRX matches my lived experience, something no other model can do." 

Ready for Use and Delivered by Domain Experts

FuelsRx is built on the Ladris Core platform, a complete solution for emergency management that also includes Evac, Fire, Flood, and Forward Ops.. It is suited for emergency managers, fire protection districts, land managers, utilities, tribes, conservation groups, and agencies tasked with protecting lives and critical infrastructure in high-risk areas.

Ladris FuelsRx data is now available for interested parties.

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About Ladris

Ladris’ mission is to create a future in which every person on Earth is much less likely to die in a disaster or lose their homes, livelihoods, and natural resources to a disaster. Ladris has brought together leading operators, scientists, first responders, emergency managers, and government technology veterans to solve this problem for good. United by purpose, our ambition is to become the first and last solution that communities need to largely eliminate the risk of disasters by making better decisions in advance and in the moment. Learn more at www.ladris.com.