The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) consumes an enormous amount of data to get their job done. I've noted before that they use aerial infrared/GPS mapping of fires, This information is then fed into a supercomputer at University of California- San Diego to produce 6/12/24 hour predictions of future fire behavior.
On the other side of the equation is technology for early detection of fires. In 2018 the US Department of Defense found that they knew about the fatal Camp fire before Cal Fire did- courtesy of spy satellites. This led to a program named Fireguard where the DOD provides Cal Fire with "sanitized" (Cal Fire doesn't need to know if your car registration sticker is up to date) surveillance data from top secret sources ( satellites, aircraft, drones).
Cal Fire has maintained more than a 1,000 cameras on mountaintops for years. These cameras are monitored 24/7 by 21 command centers. In June Cal Fire began a pilot program using AI to monitor the cameras. Human supervisors are training it to learn false positives (fog, dust, prescribed burns). So far, 40% of AI hits have preceded 911 calls. About a dozen valid AI hits never generated any 911 calls.
You can see the cameras on
www.alertcalifornia.org.
Cal Fire's goal is to control 95% of all fires in less than 10 acres.