Riska: Wildfire Alerts

Riska Dev

About this app

Riska gives you wildfire alerts for the places you care about in Portugal — a live fire map, daily IPMA fire risk, official ANEPC incidents, satellite detections and warnings by municipality. To know is to protect.

INDEPENDENT APP — NOT A GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Riska is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any government entity including ANEPC, IPMA, ICNF, or SGIFR. It aggregates publicly available data from the sources listed below and does not generate fire data independently. Information may be delayed or incomplete. In an emergency, follow official authorities and call 112.

SAVE YOUR PLACES
Your home, your land, your village. Set a watch radius and get alerted when a fire starts nearby — with distance, wind direction and incident status.

FOLLOW FIRES LIVE
- Official Civil Protection (ANEPC) incidents
- Satellite detections (NASA FIRMS), with false-positive filtering
- Daily IPMA fire risk by municipality
- Weather warnings and wind concern zones
- Burned areas (EFFIS/Copernicus) and air quality (Copernicus CAMS)

ALERTS THAT EXPLAIN WHY
Every alert says what is known and what is not — distance, wind direction, incident status. No alarmism, no silence. Official data is always shown separately from Riska's own interpretation.

BUILT FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS TOO
Fully bilingual English and Portuguese, with plain explanations of Portugal's fire warning system — IPMA risk levels, ANEPC alerts, burn restrictions.

BEFORE AND AFTER
Preparation guides, burn-restriction checks by municipality, and after the fire, recovery resources and burned-area tracking.

DATA SOURCES
1. ANEPC — civil protection — https://www.gov.pt/entidades/autoridade-nacional-de-emergencia-e-protecao-civil
2. IPMA — fire risk, weather — https://www.ipma.pt
3. ICNF/SGIFR — rural fire info — https://www.sgifr.gov.pt
4. NASA FIRMS — satellite detection (VIIRS) — https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov
5. EFFIS/Copernicus — burned areas — https://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu
6. Copernicus CAMS — air quality — https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu
7. Open-Meteo — forecasts (ECMWF) — https://open-meteo.com
8. Blitzortung — lightning — https://www.blitzortung.org
9. OpenStreetMap — base map — https://www.openstreetmap.org

Firefighters (bombeiros) have permanent free access to all features.

DISCLAIMERS
- Not a government service or entity
- Does not replace official emergency communications
- Does not issue evacuation orders or civil protection instructions
- Does not independently verify fire data
- In an emergency, always call 112

Riska was born in Serra da Estrela, after the 2022 fire. We built it because we needed it.

Operated by Ecosnyp OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia · Contact: [e-mail]
To know is to protect.

What’s new

• Improved My Places navigation and alert controls
• Added separate test options for email and Telegram alerts
• Added a new “How alerts work” guide
• Fixed broken help and documentation links
• Improved the More and Account screens
• Corrected app version display
• Removed duplicate and unnecessary interface elements
• General usability, accessibility, and stability improvements