CitroTech Inc. (NYSE American: CITR) and Athena Intelligence announced a strategic partnership to bring geospatial intelligence to proactive wildfire prevention. The companies are combining CitroTech’s environmentally responsible fire-inhibitor technology with Athena’s Voice of the Acre® platform to improve how utilities, communities, homeowners, and insurers assess risk and target mitigation.
Voice of the Acre® evaluates wildfire conditions across four layers of intelligence, from block-level risk profiling to pixel-level fire behavior and treatment modeling. It integrates environmental and wildfire data including vegetation and fuel characteristics, weather, moisture, topography, and surrounding landscape conditions into high-resolution, conditional geo-profiles.
Athena has incorporated years of CitroTech laboratory and field performance data into the platform to model how treatment changes expected fire behavior, including flame height and rate of spread. The companies are initially focused on residential protection, utilities, municipalities, and insurance.
Quantifying the mitigation response
Voice of the Acre® has produced more than 38,000 geospatial fire-behavior profiles across the western United States. CitroTech performance data has been digitally mapped across 48% of those profiles, enabling Athena to quantify how treatment changes expected fire behavior under different landscape conditions.
The analysis indicates an approximately 50% reduction in key fire-behavior characteristics, which can be translated into a measurable reduction in rate of spread. In practical terms, slowing wildfire spread can provide an additional hour or more before fire reaches a community one or two miles away—time that can materially affect evacuation, firefighter response, and community defense.
Connecting mitigation decisions across the landscape
The partnership is designed to help organizations move beyond simply identifying where wildfire risk exists. Athena’s platform can support decisions about where mitigation should be deployed, how much treatment is appropriate for a location, and how risk profiles change as conditions and mitigation actions evolve over time.
Initial applications include integration with CitroSafe™ wildfire defense systems for homes, utility and community mitigation prioritization across multiple assets, and insurance use cases where documented treatment can inform risk and coverage decisions.
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