{
  "title": "Create a Wildfire Evacuation Plan | Satelife",
  "description": "A new Satelife tool: draw evacuation zones, egress routes, refuge areas and control points on a satellite map, then export a draft wildfire evacuation plan for AHJ review — scored against U.S. Fire Administration national evacuation-planning guidance. Advisory decision support, not an evacuation order.",
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  "content": "Tool · Evacuation Planning\n\n# Build a wildfire _evacuation plan_\n\nA new Satelife tool for the people who plan how a community gets out. Drop evacuation zones, egress routes, refuge areas, assembly points and traffic control onto a satellite map — then export a draft evacuation plan for the authority having jurisdiction. Every plan is checked, live, against national evacuation-planning guidance, so gaps surface before fire season, not during it. It is advisory decision support — not an evacuation order.\n\n![Exported Satelife draft evacuation plan cover for River Road Estates, California, showing a checklist score of 61 out of 100 with 8 pass, 12 warn and 3 fail, marked draft for AHJ review.](/images/wildfire-evacuation-plan/plan-cover.png)\n\n## From a blank map to an _AHJ-ready draft_\n\nThe risk report tells you how exposed a place is. The evacuation planner answers what happens next: how people leave, by which routes, past which control points, to which refuge — and where that plan is thin. You draw it on a map; Satelife scores it and exports a review-ready document.\n\n01\n\n### Draw it on satellite imagery\n\nPlace nine kinds of evacuation element — zones, routes, refuges, assembly and control points — directly over base imagery. Every feature is labeled, numbered and typed, and lives in a structured plan you can revise anytime.\n\n02\n\n### Checked against national guidance\n\nA live methodology checklist scores the plan against U.S. Fire Administration wildfire evacuation-planning guidance — flagging orphaned assets, non-independent egress and unstaffed pinch points as pass, warn or fail findings.\n\n03\n\n### Exports for AHJ review\n\nOne click produces a versioned PDF — overview, situation map, element inventory and the full checklist — stamped _draft, for AHJ review_. It is a planning aid for the authority having jurisdiction, never an operational order.\n\n## Nine elements, _one shared language_\n\nEverything in a plan is one of nine element kinds — each with its own colour, label prefix and the details responders actually need. The checklist knows what each one requires, so an incomplete element tells you exactly what is missing.\n\nEvacuation Zone **EZ-01** · Area The populated area to be cleared, with a population estimate.\n\nEgress Route **ER-01** · Line A road out — direction, lanes and class. Every zone needs two independent ones.\n\nContraflow Segment **CF-01** · Line A stretch where traffic flow is reversed, tied to a route and an activation trigger.\n\nTraffic Control Point **TCP-01** · Point A staffed junction that meters and directs flow at merge and pinch points.\n\nTemporary Refuge Area **TFRA-01** · Point / Area A last-resort protective area — its type and capacity define the shelter it offers.\n\nAssembly Point **AP-01** · Point Where evacuees gather, with capacity, facility and AFN accessibility.\n\nDecision Point **DP-01** · Point A monitored condition tied to a triggered action — the trigger that starts movement.\n\nAt-Risk Asset **AR-01** · Point / Area A hospital, school or care home needing an assigned route and a lead time.\n\nHazard Note **HN-01** · Point / Line A local hazard — a blind curve, a low bridge, a single-lane pinch — flagged on the map.\n\n## How a plan _comes together_\n\nFrom an address or community boundary to an exported draft — the plan is yours to shape, and the checklist keeps score the whole way.\n\nStep 01\n\n### Start on the map\n\nOpen a location on satellite imagery and search to the community you are planning for.\n\nStep 02\n\n### Place elements\n\nDraw zones, routes, refuges, assembly and control points from the element palette.\n\nStep 03\n\n### Add the details\n\nPopulations, lanes, capacities, triggers and assigned routes — the facts responders rely on.\n\nStep 04\n\n### Read the checklist\n\nLive pass / warn / fail findings show where the plan is thin, ranked by severity.\n\nStep 05\n\n### Export for review\n\nGenerate a versioned draft PDF, stamped for AHJ review, ready to hand off.\n\n## The result: a _situation map_ and a scored plan\n\nThe export pairs a labeled situation map over base imagery with a full methodology checklist — an overall score plus every advisory finding, so a reviewer sees both the plan and its gaps at a glance. Below is a real draft for a sample California community.\n\n![Situation map from a Satelife draft evacuation plan: two evacuation zones, seven egress routes, a contraflow segment, three traffic control points, a temporary refuge area, two assembly points, a decision point and two at-risk assets, all labeled over USGS satellite imagery.](/images/wildfire-evacuation-plan/plan-map.jpg)\n\nThe situation map — every proposed element labeled over public-domain USGS imagery, with a colour-coded legend.\n\n#### Methodology checklist61 / 100\n\nFail\n\nAt-risk asset has no valid assigned route\n\nHospitals and care homes need a valid route so their assisted evacuation isn’t left to chance.\n\nWarn\n\nZone egress routes are not independent\n\nAll routes serving the zone run within a 45° sector — a single hazard front could cut them all at once.\n\nWarn\n\nRoute has no nearby traffic control\n\nNo control point within 100 m and no contraflow plan — the route is exposed to gridlock under load.\n\nPass\n\nAll served zones have two or more egress routes\n\nEvery populated zone has at least two ways out mapped.\n\n**Advisory by design.** Every plan exports as a draft for the authority having jurisdiction. All elements are proposed and require review and adoption by the AHJ — the document is a planning aid and does **not** authorize or order an evacuation. Field verification is always required.\n\n## Plan the way _out_\n\nDraw your evacuation zones, egress routes and refuge areas on a satellite map, keep score against national guidance, and export a draft plan your AHJ can review — before the next fire season.\n\n[Start a plan →](https://app.satelife.ai/)\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."
}