ForestSat is the world's first full-lifecycle wildfire intelligence operating system — satellite Earth Observation fused with AI, forest science and cloud infrastructure for wildfire risk prediction, prevention and suppression.
The Thesis
Every megafire that has devastated a landscape was preceded by years of observable risk accumulation. Fuel building. Vegetation drying. Moisture declining. Conditions tightening toward the inevitable. Visible from orbit. Quantifiable by AI. Actionable — before the spark.
ForestSat has created a new Wildfire Management Operating System. We integrate a decade of multi-source satellite observation, environmental variables, and machine learning models trained on the forensic record of what megafire conditions look like — before fire season, before ignition.
The result is the world's first AI-driven, satellite-data-based full-lifecycle wildfire intelligence operating system:
World Has a Wildfire Problem
Governments, utilities, and insurers are committing unprecedented capital to wildfire. Enormous budget overruns and uncharted losses persist because, until now, there was no intelligence layer. ForestSat provides the predictive intelligence to know where to spend it and the verification system to prove it worked.
Every figure sourced from peer-reviewed research, government filings, or insurance industry bodies.
Single wildfire event insured loss — LA 2025. The largest in recorded history. 30% of European reinsurers' entire annual catastrophe budgets consumed.
Munich Re NatCat Annual Report 2026Annual compounding growth in global wildfire insured losses. Doubling every six years. Eight of ten costliest wildfire insured events on record in the past decade.
Swiss Re Institute, April 2026US federal wildfire budget request FY2026 — +245% in a single year. USFS + DOI combined appropriations grew from under $2B in 1994 to $7.5B in FY2022. Trajectory: unlimited upward.
DOI FY2026 Budget Request; FAS 2023Combined wildfire claims, settlements, and bonds from PG&E ($25.5B), PacifiCorp ($46B+), Hawaiian Electric ($1.99B), SCE ($6.2B plan). One utility already bankrupt.
PG&E SEC 8-K 2020; Financier WorldwideEvery dollar invested in prevention saves $6–12 in suppression costs alone — before ecological, health, infrastructure, and insurance benefits are counted.
USFS; UNEP Spreading Like Wildfire 2022Projected increase in global extreme fire events by 2100. +14% by 2030. +30% by 2050. Mediterranean regions face up to ×10 increase in extreme fire probability.
UNEP 2022; El Garroussi et al., npj 2024ForestSat serves three categories of institution that face wildfire as an existential financial and operational challenge — each with a distinct product path and strategic entry point.
Investors · Philanthropists · Climate Funders
No one has built the full Predict → Prevent → Verify → Respond → Recover lifecycle. ForestSat is category-defining at the intersection of climate risk infrastructure, public safety AI, SaaS, insurance technology, and government accountability.
The Platform
Not a dashboard. An operating system that remains useful before, during, and after every fire — each product sharing satellite data, AI models, and customer context with all others.
AI maps where risk is quietly building — years before ignition. 10+ years satellite EO, 50+ variables.
Year-round prevention action plans: fuel management, firebreaks, risk-ranked priorities.
Satellite proof of what was done, what it cost, and whether risk was reduced. System of record.
Predicts fire direction, speed, impact from first ignition. Act ahead of the flame front.
Pre/post-fire satellite assessment for governments, insurers, and restoration programmes.
Sentinel-2/3, Landsat, SAR Radar, MODIS, GOES-18, ESA, NASA, JAXA, ISRO + commercial. 375m–10m resolution.
Risk prediction, fire spread simulation, fuel mapping trained on 10+ years of satellite + environmental data. NVIDIA GPU-accelerated.
Fuel accumulation, canopy structure, vegetation stress, drought signatures, 50+ environmental variables. Decades of fire footprint analysis.
Geospatial processing at scale. Dashboard delivery, API-ready outputs, role-based access. AWS Space Challenge winner.
Winner, Dubai Air Show 2021. Recognising ForestSat's satellite EO architecture as mission-critical cloud infrastructure.
GPU credits recognising ForestSat's AI/ML fire risk modelling requirements at geospatial scale.
European wildfire research programme. Scientific credibility in the world's most rapidly escalating fire risk region.
Government innovation grant validating ForestSat's technology approach and international expansion thesis.
The Founder
Ajay Goyal founded ForestSat from a deeply held conviction that megafires are
preventable. Once research and technology demonstrate that satellite data, AI, and forest science — properly
integrated — can enable prevention, the work becomes a moral imperative.
Ajay is a serial entrepreneur
and his team are the authors of the six-volume Megawildfires book series on Amazon. ForestSat has been built
through five years of passionate, bootstrapped commitment.
"Every megafire that has devastated a landscape was preceded by years of observable, measurable, preventable risk accumulation. We built the system to see it, act on it, and prove that we did."
Ajay Goyal — Founder & CEO, ForestSatSix Megawildfires books on Amazon. Satellite forensic investigation of megafire risk. The platform operationalises the same thesis.
AWS Space Challenge winner. EU Fire-Res alumnus. Deep technical expertise in satellite Earth Observation for fire risk.
NVIDIA Inception program. GPU-accelerated fire risk modelling. ML trained on decade-long satellite observation records.
Five years of resilience and commitment — building the platform from conviction, without equity dilution.
Whether you are a conservation foundation, a forestry officer, a policymaker, a utility CEO, or an insurance
underwriter — wildfire risk mitigation, prevention, and management starts here.
Let us show you what
ForestSat sees from orbit: where the next megafire is forming, what it will cost if it burns, and how to prevent
it.
Bootstrapped · No equity dilution · Q2–Q3 2026 commercial rollout · Technology ready