Fireguard Wildfire Tracker

Qvyshift LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Get a powerful wildfire activity tracking map with fire alerts and near real-time tracking of fire locations and progression.

See details of fire activity overlaid on a single map:

• Hotspots identified by satellite-based sensors
• US & Canada wildfire incident reports
• Wildfire burned area boundaries
• Crowdsourced fire report markers
• NOAA smoke areas
• Cal Fire incident detail
• Fire weather risk areas
• Fire cameras

Who can benefit from this app?

• Anyone living or working in wildfire-prone areas
• People who may want to alert family members in remote or high-risk areas
• Anyone interested in emergency preparedness and wildfire risk reduction

No login or registration required.

QUICK START: Open app and tap on "Fires near me"

Ad-supported. If you like the app, please consider upgrading with a one-time purchase to unlock bonus features, disable advertising, and support future development.

Ratings and reviews

Show me the smoke! For some reason, the app only sometimes shows the smokey areas in North America. I can turn off/on the smoke setting. I can force close the app and restart. But nothing I do seems to make the smoke visible on occasion. I don't know why smoke is visible on occasion and sometimes not. Thank you to the developer for the smoke explanation. The explanation comports with my experience, but I changed my rating from 3 to 4 for the explanation. Solving the problem would earn a 5.

Testing this app for our area, Western Cape, South Africa. Unless I'm missing it, there doesn't seem to be a distance calculator directly on the app. Shows a distance when one taps on more info, however, I'm assuming is a distance of one's current location? Not to a specific location elsewhere? One can go to co-ords > Google earth. Is there a possibility for this to be developed still? The quality on mobile seems really good and it is showing accurately an active fire nearby.

Its okay, but in the middle of a wildfire emergency the information is just not current enough to be useful, and can even be misleading due to plumes of smoke causing heat readings where no fire is on the ground. Pulse Point is much better for immediate notification and location emergencies. Still, i keep Fireguard in my tool kit and bought the paid version so i can keep an eye on areas where my relatives live.