Frontline Wildfire Tracker
October 17, 2024
More About Frontline Wildfire Tracker
At a glance, the dashboard provides key information about your wildfire situation and easy access to helpful features. Key wildfire related alerts are displayed on the dashboard together with fire weather, air quality, fire danger indexes, access to your personal emergency contact groups, and preparation checklists.
Wildfire Map and Information
The fire map allows you to see and track wild fires that may threaten your home and your loved ones. You're able to gather more information about the fire such as location of fire perimeter, fire name, containment, acres burned, and latest updates. Watch fires and get the latest updates. See California wildfire evacuation warnings and orders, red flag warnings, fire weather watch and more. This fire tracker gives you all the information you need to safely navigate wild fire in your area.
Fire Preparation Checklists
Prepare yourself, your family and your home for wildfire by using the Frontline Wildfire preparation checklists. The Frontline mobile app guides you step-by-step through specific tasks to better prepare you, your family and your home for fire events.
Emergency Contact Groups
By creating an Emergency Contact Group, you can invite your friends, family and loved ones to receive and share the notifications that are critical during the wildfire season. Emergency alerts are sent to all people in the group whenever a fire event is near.
Fire Alert Notifications
Get all of the latest emergency alert notifications in one place when it comes to wildfires in your area. You can expect notices about new fires, red flag warnings, fire weather watches, lightning, evacuations and more when you need them.
Frontline Wildfire Home Defense System
For those who choose to install a Frontline Home Defense System, the Frontline Wildfire Defense app will also provide monitoring and remote control features for that system. The Home Defense System uses water and a biodegradable Class A firefighting foam to hydrate the materials of your home and surrounding areas to prevent ember ignition and spot fires. With redundant communications (WiFi, cellular, satellite) and power (backup battery) systems built in, the Frontline Wildfire Home Defense System enables you to maintain control and protect your home throughout a wildfire event. To learn more, visit frontlinewildfire.com.
The Frontline mobile app will give you all the wild fire information you need to keep you safe. Join the Frontline Wildfire Defense mission today to protect yourself, your family and your home from wildfire disaster!
Terms of Use: https://www.frontlinewildfire.com/terms-of-use/
Latest Version
3.10.1
October 17, 2024
Frontline Wildfire Defense
Communication
Android
38,436
Free
com.firefriends.frontline
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User Reviews
Keith Johnson
2 years ago
Requires a login account for freely accessible public IRWIN and other Wildfire data doesn't make much sense to me unless there is something special though I kinda doubt that. Making folks register for basic wildfire data seems like a marketing ploy to me. Seems useless for the majority of people unless they actually have the Frontline Wildfire defense system. Reply comments say it's a different service and application. Wildfire map on the website is only basemap and otherwise blank on 7/14/2022.
Fitz
1 year ago
This thing is SOOOOO SLOOOWWWWW I'm on a Galaxy S10, which is not exactly an old and outdated device by any means. This app is sluggish and unresponsive to a huge fault. Menus take 10-15 seconds just to open, 30sec to open the map, button taps not doing anything, etc
Phillip Kelley
3 months ago
Do not sign up for this. Updates for fires are hours behind and it will not let me delete my account.
Richard Koch
2 years ago
I appreciate being informed that there is a fire within 1.6 miles of my home. I also appreciate that the app indicates that fire status updates are available. The fact that the updates occur periodically but there is absolutely no way to link to the updates and get vital information makes this system a curiosity, but nothing to aid in determining whether or not to evacuate AGAIN and ensure safety. From a real-world user.
Golden Kayser
11 months ago
I love the concept of this app! It's a simple and quick way to do research. But, this app would be so much better if we could easily send photos or map variantions to friends and family. I screenshot a lot of what I find researching. I would like to be able to capture those things easier
Archer
1 month ago
Absolutely ridiculous. The fire perimeter does nothing but glitch and doesn't even show 85% of the time. This morning I checked and it said there was a fire less than a mile away from me. I panicked only to find out it was put out early this morning. I am appalled at the audacity you must have to make an app that people may depend on for their safety and then not keep it updated with VERY NECESSARY INFORMATION. Do better.
David Brown
3 months ago
Horrible app & interface. Can't get past address page and it won't highlight what is wrong.
Charles Foster
3 months ago
Took 5 attempts to even make an account, then once I was successful all I get is black screens then crash.
Geri Mars
1 month ago
So far, so good. The app works great and has no issues on my Samsung Galaxy Smartphone.
Destry Sherwin
1 month ago
Why am I required to create an account to try out the app? Watch Duty doesn't not require an account. I am uninstalling Frontline Wildfire Tracker due to this initial requirement.
Darrin
1 month ago
Seems like a decent app, but I am currently being rained on by ash from a wildfire and possibly going to need to evacuate soon. This app shows no fire anywhere around me, but one that was put out the other day. There are currently, from other sources, 2 or 3 fires nearby. I would be in grave danger if attempting to use this app to save my family! That is NOT acceptable for an app claiming to be any sort of aid in an emergency!
PM Thompson
2 years ago
I installed this app because I live in the mountains and want to be notified if there's a fire near by. Today I noticed smoke and a red sun before I received a notification, wondering wth I opened the app and had to search for a fire that was less than 5 miles away, then a notification popped up with the name of the fire and an option to get more info so I clicked on that only to have a disclaimer page pop up saying that the information contained within is not reliable and nothing else :(
Steven Flinn
3 months ago
At a cursory look, I couldn't figure out how to set a particular fire to track. I looked through all the pages, but saw no way to set up to track a current fire. The app says it has a tracking. It would be nice if the app had some instructions. Could develope into a very useful app.
Lori Munoz
1 month ago
App can not be relied on to open. I opened it last night, went to sleep, and when I checked this morning it still hadn't loaded. And when it does, if you change locations or maps the refresh lag is insane. It's a shame. Great promised features and functions but poor results.
Dave M
2 years ago
Nice layout and UI. Pretty easy to set up for fire alerts. Two annoying things that bring down the rating: + Can't customize notifications, so I am constantly getting alerts when fire danger level changes. I don't need this, but there's no way (that I can find anyway) to turn that off without losing actual fire notifications. + Email address for support is dead text - can't tap on it to open an email, can't even copy it to the clipboard.
Kari Foster
2 years ago
I am excited for the potential of this app. There are some kinks still to be worked out. Notifications say there are updates to fires but doesn't say what the updates are even when clicking more info. The selected overlays don't stay on and have to be constantly re-selected. It allows for multipul addresses. It did seem to have trouble validating some addresses but once I put in the zip code that issue seemd moot. The app is very nicely designed and once working properly will be a great asset!
T A
3 months ago
I've used this app for the past few years, and it was wonderful until the last update. Since the last update, even though it said that it fixed bugs, I've had 10x more issues with the app. If anything, I might be underexaggerating a bit. I'll have fires on my watch list, click to view on the map, and it either tells me it doesn't exist or it just shows my home location without any of the fires that I know are in the area.
None Ya
4 months ago
After I've uninstalled to reinstalled app multiple times, it consistently refuses to open, but instead prompts error msg, "FRONTLINE FIRE DEFENSE HAS STOPPED. CLOSE APP" although it never opened to even get started. Ironic, don't u think, considering it never even opened?! Plz fix this dang thing if u want 5 stars. In the meantime I'm uninstalling it and will chk bk in 90 days or so. In the meantime I'll find another funtional one... Thx in advance for fixing/upgrading it; that is if u do...!
Joseph Sanders
3 months ago
While the fire notifications are helpful they don't seem to update soon after they start and when contained for a few days after checking various news sources. And some fires disappear entirely from the map while actually active and I can only see them in notifications for them rather than being able to find where they are on the map.
Shawn Traxler
3 months ago
This app has great features, however, It is very slow on updating information about fires. I've been using another app and they are better at updating more current information about fires and show clear fire lines not just hot spots and are great about updating evacuations and other important information. And also has wind direction and other features that are more useful. The best thing about this versus the other is that you can customize it a bit more.
