Privacy

FireRiskHere is built to answer one question — is there wildfire near me right now — with as little of your data as possible. No account, no login, no tracking. This page explains exactly what the site does and doesn’t do with information.

How the site knows roughly where you are

Like every website, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) receives your IP address in order to deliver the page. We use it for one extra thing: an approximate, city-level location estimate, so the page can show you fires near you. That estimate is used to render your result and nothing else — there’s no login, no profile, and the location isn’t saved against any identifier for you. (How accurate this is, and why it’s city-level rather than street-level, is covered in our guide on IP geolocation.)

If you use address search

When you type an address into the search box, that text is sent to OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim service to turn it into map coordinates. To avoid repeating the same lookup, we cache the result for up to 90 days — keyed on the search text itself, not on you. Two people searching the same place share one cached entry; the cache has no idea who did the searching.

If you use the contact form

You send us your name, email address, a subject, and your message, so we can reply. The form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile to keep out spam bots, and your message reaches us through Resend (an email-sending service) and Cloudflare Email Routing. We use what you send only to respond to you.

What we don’t do

No accounts. No advertising networks. No analytics or third-party tracking scripts — which is also why there’s no cookie-consent banner: we don’t set tracking cookies. We don’t sell or trade your information.

About the fire archive

We keep a historical record of wildfire activity — the fires themselves, their size and status over time. That archive is about fires, not about visitors. It holds no personal information about you.

Services we rely on

Cloudflare hosts the site and provides security, the location estimate, and email routing. OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim handles address lookups — only when you use search. Resend delivers contact-form messages — only when you write to us.

Questions

Anything here you’d like clarified? Reach us through the contact form.

Last updated: 28 May 2026.