Ending Deadly Wildfires

XPRIZE Wildfire is a five-year competition that will recruit interdisciplinary teams of innovators from around the world to develop and scale integrated systems that can autonomously detect and assess potentially catastrophic wildfires immediately upon onset to suppress locally and warn globally.

This prize has two key tracks on local and large-scale fire detection. We need both tracks for this prize to have the most successful outcomes for wildfire detection.

• Rapid detection and Suppression (Rapid Firefighting Response): The local fire identification track will award a multi-million (US) dollar cash prize to develop integrated systems that can autonomously detect, assess, and suppress potentially catastrophic wildfires quickly within a defined 1,000km2 area in under 10 minutes from ignition.
• Global Detection and Warning (Space-Based Wildfire Detection & Monitoring for Global Use): The large-scale fire detection track will award a multi-million (US) dollar cash prize and the opportunity to have their sensor and algorithm systems integrated into a satellite for global fire detection. Although hotspot detection capability exists, it does not show enough detail or frequency of the suspected fire and often provides false alarms – errors that the winning technology from this track will have resolved.

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The XPRIZE Foundation is actively seeking to raise funds from philanthropists and corporate sponsors who will underwrite the competition prize purse and prize operations. We are also looking for field testing partners to provide the necessary resources for this critical part of the competition.