We are delighted to introduce FireScope AI: the first AI system for predicting wildfire risk at high-resolution and with human-friendly explanations! We are also releasing the first public high-resolution long-term fire risk map for Europe at firescope.ai!
FireScope AI comes amid a growing risk of wildfires in Europe. According to the European Environment Agency, forest fires cause around €2.5 billion in damage annually in the EU, and the World Meteorological Organization predicts that the risk of forest fires in Europe will continue to increase due to climate change.
Firescope enables European countries to immediately and more effectively target wildfire prevention, preparedness, land-use planning, climate adaptation, and many other tasks – where fires are most likely to occur and cause the greatest damage.
FireScope AI outperforms general-purpose models such as GPT-5 and conventional methods such as the Fire Weather Index.
FireScope AI works by combining satellite imagery and climate data into continuous risk maps. To produce robust, expert-level fire risk estimates, it uses these inputs to infer vegetation density and dryness, seasonal drought trends, wind patterns and more complex interactions like winds aligning with heat waves, slopes, and vegetation.
FireScope AI uses a novel reasoning-to-generation pipeline: a thinking model we trained to explicitly reason over Sentinel-2 imagery and climate variables and a vision model that turns its signal into dense wildfire risk rasters.
In addition to FireScope AI, we also introduce FireScope-Bench, the first high-resolution large-scale multimodal wildfire risk benchmark combining satellite imagery, climate data, expert risk labels, and real wildfire events.
FireScope is built in collaboration with ETH Zurich, is accepted and will be presented at CVPR 2026 in Denver, USA next week. CVPR is the world’s leading computer vision and AI conference. Congratulations to Mario Markov, Stefan Maria Ailuro, Luc Van Gool, Konrad Schindler, and Danda Pani Paudel!
We are releasing the European interactive map, as well as our research paper, code, data, at: www.firescope.ai