Watch for HOAs and community managers
Board-ready numbers: the same fire, size, and distance residents can be given — with the source.
When a fire is in the county, the board wants numbers and residents want an answer that is not a rumor. Watch checks points across your community against the federal wildfire incident feed every 15 minutes, and gives the board and the block captains the same sentence for each one: the fire’s name, its reported size, the measured distance, and the official incident record.
Start free with 3 locations See the sample demo Pricing How it works & limits
Board-ready numbers
Alerts go to the recipients you list — the board, the committee, the block captains — when the feed lists a new fire inside the distance you choose, or a listed fire’s size and distance put a point at watch or threat level. Status is a published rule, not a feeling: a fire 200 yards away is a threat at any size; a 10,000-acre fire is a threat within 8 miles and worth watching within 25. Every alert names the rule it applied.
Everything is logged with timestamps, so the same record doubles as the board’s diligence file: what the system saw, what was sent, to whom, and when — useful when the association’s insurance renewal asks what wildfire monitoring the community has in place.
How it works
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Paste your addresses
One per line, or a CSV. We geocode each one and show you what we found before it goes live.
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We check the federal feed
Every 15 minutes, each address is compared with the NIFC WFIGS incident list and its mapped perimeters, plus NASA FIRMS satellite heat matched to those incidents. What is not reported to that feed, we cannot see — sources, rules and limits.
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You get an email you can act on
It names the fire, its reported size, the measured distance, the rule that made it a watch or a threat, and the official incident source. The app shows when each place was last checked.
Pricing
A community up to 25 monitored points fits Starter; Pro adds text alerts and 250 points.
Starter
$29/mo
25 locations
Pro
$99/mo
250 locations
14-day trial on paid tiers, one per customer; annual billing takes two months off. The free tier covers 3 locations, no card. Full pricing and every plan. Starting a trial means you accept the terms.
Data and limits
Data: NIFC WFIGS incident locations and perimeters, NASA FIRMS satellite heat matched to those incidents, refreshed every 15 minutes. Watch reports what that feed lists; it cannot see a fire that has not been reported to it, and mapped perimeters can lag the ground by hours. Status (watch / threat) is a rule on each listed fire’s size and measured distance, shown in full in the app and on the trust page. Watch supplements — never replaces — official emergency alerts. Awareness only; always follow local authorities.
If you got a link from us
We sometimes prepare a real Watch account for a business we would like to show it to — your addresses, or a clearly labelled sample list — and email the link. Nothing is charged and nothing else is emailed until you open it; one reply stops any further mail. How Watch works, what it cannot see, and who runs it.
Watch is also used by: Vacation-rental managers · Property managers · Insurance agencies — or see everything Watch does.