{
  "title": "What's New — Satelife Changelog",
  "description": "What's new at Satelife. A fortnightly changelog of our wildfire-risk beta — new features, improvements, and fixes, release by release.",
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  "content": "Changelog\n\n# What's _new_\n\nSatelife is in beta and ships on a two-week cadence. Here's what changed in each release — newest first.\n\n1.  beta.9 Jul 23 – 31, 2026\n    \n    ## Sharper fuel and structure-spacing modeling\n    \n    -   New Neighborhood reports now factor how tightly homes are spaced, not just how many there are — clusters of structures within a few meters of one another are flagged for home-to-home fire spread, the pattern behind most structure loss in wildland-urban fires. This now works everywhere in the continental U.S., not only California.\n    -   Improved Vegetation and fuel scoring now reads canopy height and density, not just vegetation type — a tall, closed forest canopy and low scrub of the same species are no longer scored the same, drawing on free national LANDFIRE canopy data.\n    -   Improved The fire-spread visualization now treats gaps in the tree canopy — clearings, thinned stands, old burn scars — as fuel breaks that slow and deflect the modeled fire front, alongside roads and other barriers.\n    -   Improved Reports now show the vintage of the LANDFIRE vegetation data behind each fuel map, so you can see how current it is.\n    \n2.  beta.8 Jul 18 – 31, 2026\n    \n    ## Smarter neighborhood hazard mapping\n    \n    -   New Neighborhood reports now read wildfire hazard zone-by-zone from the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities 30-meter national dataset — hotspots reflect where burn probability and fire intensity actually concentrate, not just where buildings cluster.\n    -   New Expected annual structure exposures — a single headline number for how many structures in your community could be exposed to wildfire in an average year, computed with the USFS method and cited to its methodology.\n    -   Improved The neighborhood report’s methodology section now explains exactly how USFS data shapes each zone’s score — a long-term average over thousands of simulated fire seasons, never a prediction for a specific year.\n    -   Fixed Building density is no longer overstated for large community boundaries, so hotspots in bigger towns rank correctly.\n    -   Fixed A partial USFS data outage no longer silently understates a property’s hazard score.\n    \n3.  beta.7 Jul 8 – 17, 2026\n    \n    ## Evacuation planning\n    \n    -   New Create a wildfire evacuation plan — draw evacuation zones, egress routes, contraflow segments, traffic control points, refuge and assembly points, decision points and at-risk assets directly on a satellite map.\n    -   New A live methodology checklist scores every plan against U.S. Fire Administration national evacuation-planning guidance — flagging things like at-risk assets with no assigned route, zones whose exits aren’t independent, and pinch points with no traffic control, as pass / warn / fail findings.\n    -   New Export a versioned draft evacuation plan as a PDF — overview, situation map, element inventory and full checklist — clearly stamped “draft, for AHJ review.” It’s a planning aid, never an evacuation order.\n    -   Improved Find the new tool from the site header under Tools, and from the Wildfire Risk hub.\n    \n4.  beta.6 Jun 30 – Jul 7, 2026\n    \n    ## Neighborhood reports & evacuation routes\n    \n    -   New A Neighborhood/Village Wildfire Risk report — score an entire community in a fine-grained grid, spot its highest-risk hotspots, and get a prioritized, costed mitigation action plan. Available for California and Portugal.\n    -   New Set your neighborhood boundary your way — look it up by place name, set a radius around a point, or draw it by hand on an interactive map.\n    -   New Community Access & Evacuation analysis — see fire-truck drive time to your highest-risk hotspots, how many ways there are out of your community, and where evacuation routes could bottleneck.\n    -   Improved Reports now show the exact date and source of the satellite imagery behind each map, so you know how current the view is.\n    -   Improved More accurate region detection for U.S. addresses outside California.\n    -   Fixed Smoother map drawing and boundary editing — no more stray clicks before the map is ready or jumpy markers while dragging.\n    \n5.  beta.5 Jun 26 – 29, 2026\n    \n    ## Wildfire Prepared Home reports\n    \n    -   New A dedicated Wildfire Prepared Home readiness report — see how ready your property is across the Essential and Enhanced pathways, with an overall 0–100 readiness score, a visual gauge, and a checklist of what’s covered.\n    -   New Choose what you want right from the homepage — pick one report or several and launch them together; each report tile unlocks as your address qualifies.\n    -   New Community fire-preparedness — an optional layer that factors your wider community’s wildfire readiness into the risk score.\n    -   Improved Cleaner report pages — the on-screen readiness gauge now matches the PDF donut exactly.\n    -   Fixed Report pages no longer flash a date mismatch on load, a slow road-access lookup can no longer stall an entire run, and you can re-run a report that previously failed.\n    \n6.  beta.4 Jun 12 – 25, 2026\n    \n    ## Redesigned reports & email alerts\n    \n    -   New Email notifications — you get an email the moment your report is ready, and whenever a report pauses waiting for your input.\n    -   New A new About page with our story, our Azores office on the map, and a contact form.\n    -   Improved A completely redesigned report: a dedicated section for every scoring layer, vegetation maps, map overlays, and an AI-written narrative for each block.\n    -   Improved Smoother onboarding — your address now carries through sign-up and your first report launches automatically.\n    -   Fixed Hazard-zone gaps are backfilled from USFS data, so far fewer parcels come back as “no mapped zone”.\n    \n7.  beta.3 May 29 – Jun 11, 2026\n    \n    ## Fire-weather scoring & automation\n    \n    -   Improved Fire-weather scoring refinements (Scoring v2) and production hardening for faster, steadier reports.\n    \n8.  beta.2 May 15 – 28, 2026\n    \n    ## Paid reports & human-in-the-loop\n    \n    -   New Paid reports, powered by Stripe — secure checkout with no card details ever touching our servers.\n    -   New Optional questionnaire and photo upload — add property details to sharpen your risk score.\n    -   New A mobile menu across the whole site.\n    -   New The Satelife blog launched, with its first articles and SEO improvements.\n    -   Improved Scoring v2 — a more accurate, more explainable risk breakdown.\n    \n9.  beta.1 May 1 – 14, 2026\n    \n    ## Satelife launches\n    \n    -   New First public release — turn any address into a traceable, parcel-level wildfire-risk report.\n    -   New An interactive fire-spread simulator.\n    -   New Six interactive data-layer cards and a workflow page explaining how a report is built.\n    -   New The public Satelife website went live.\n    -   Improved Images served as WebP — much lighter, faster-loading pages.\n    \n\n[![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf)\n\n© 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved.\n\nSatelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice."
}