Satelife is in beta and ships on a two-week cadence. Here's what changed in each release — newest first.
beta.9Jul 23 – 31, 2026
Sharper fuel and structure-spacing modeling
NewNeighborhood 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.
ImprovedVegetation 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.
ImprovedThe 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.
ImprovedReports now show the vintage of the LANDFIRE vegetation data behind each fuel map, so you can see how current it is.
beta.8Jul 18 – 31, 2026
Smarter neighborhood hazard mapping
NewNeighborhood 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.
NewExpected 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.
ImprovedThe 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.
FixedBuilding density is no longer overstated for large community boundaries, so hotspots in bigger towns rank correctly.
FixedA partial USFS data outage no longer silently understates a property’s hazard score.
beta.7Jul 8 – 17, 2026
Evacuation planning
NewCreate 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.
NewA 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.
NewExport 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.
ImprovedFind the new tool from the site header under Tools, and from the Wildfire Risk hub.
beta.6Jun 30 – Jul 7, 2026
Neighborhood reports & evacuation routes
NewA 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.
NewSet 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.
NewCommunity 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.
ImprovedReports now show the exact date and source of the satellite imagery behind each map, so you know how current the view is.
ImprovedMore accurate region detection for U.S. addresses outside California.
FixedSmoother map drawing and boundary editing — no more stray clicks before the map is ready or jumpy markers while dragging.
beta.5Jun 26 – 29, 2026
Wildfire Prepared Home reports
NewA 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.
NewChoose what you want right from the homepage — pick one report or several and launch them together; each report tile unlocks as your address qualifies.
NewCommunity fire-preparedness — an optional layer that factors your wider community’s wildfire readiness into the risk score.
ImprovedCleaner report pages — the on-screen readiness gauge now matches the PDF donut exactly.
FixedReport 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.
beta.4Jun 12 – 25, 2026
Redesigned reports & email alerts
NewEmail notifications — you get an email the moment your report is ready, and whenever a report pauses waiting for your input.
NewA new About page with our story, our Azores office on the map, and a contact form.
ImprovedA completely redesigned report: a dedicated section for every scoring layer, vegetation maps, map overlays, and an AI-written narrative for each block.
ImprovedSmoother onboarding — your address now carries through sign-up and your first report launches automatically.
FixedHazard-zone gaps are backfilled from USFS data, so far fewer parcels come back as “no mapped zone”.
beta.3May 29 – Jun 11, 2026
Fire-weather scoring & automation
ImprovedFire-weather scoring refinements (Scoring v2) and production hardening for faster, steadier reports.
beta.2May 15 – 28, 2026
Paid reports & human-in-the-loop
NewPaid reports, powered by Stripe — secure checkout with no card details ever touching our servers.
NewOptional questionnaire and photo upload — add property details to sharpen your risk score.
NewA mobile menu across the whole site.
NewThe Satelife blog launched, with its first articles and SEO improvements.
ImprovedScoring v2 — a more accurate, more explainable risk breakdown.
beta.1May 1 – 14, 2026
Satelife launches
NewFirst public release — turn any address into a traceable, parcel-level wildfire-risk report.
NewAn interactive fire-spread simulator.
NewSix interactive data-layer cards and a workflow page explaining how a report is built.
NewThe public Satelife website went live.
ImprovedImages served as WebP — much lighter, faster-loading pages.
