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24 alternatives to Forest Report

Forest and fire monitoring technology accessible to everyone

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Forest Report launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Forest Watch▲72

   Keep track of forests in your area by viewing changes in tree cover over time. I’ve build this as a demo of what you can do with the ArcGIS library and the geo data that is offered by Global Forest Watch and Esri. Don’t forget to click the history button. Works best on desktop! The demo is build with React and open source: https://github.com/vnglst/koenvangilst.nl/tree/main/app/(bla...

   2024 · koenvangilst.nl · its alternatives →

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   Firespot Wildfire Scanner▲77

   An app for viewing, tracking and receiving wildfire alerts

   2021 · firespotapp.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Wildfire Alerts▲63

   Get a heads up about wildfires in your area

   2020 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Forest 4.0▲229

   With friends, timeline, phone usage tracker & iPad support

   2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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   Signet – Autonomous wildfire tracking from satellite and weather data▲123

   I built Signet in Go to see if an autonomous system could handle the wildfire monitoring loop that people currently run by hand - checking satellite feeds, pulling up weather, looking at terrain and fuels, deciding whether a detection is actually a fire worth tracking. All the data already exists: NASA FIRMS thermal detections, GOES-19 imagery, NWS forecasts, LANDFIRE fuel models, USGS elevation, Census population data, OpenStreetMap. The problem is it arrives from different sources on different cadences in different formats. Most of the system is deterministic plumbing - ingestion, spatial…

   Mar 2026 · signet.watch · its alternatives →

6. 6
   LA Wildfire Satellite Analysis▲117

   Analysing satellite imagery of the Jan 2025 Southern California wildfires - xingyzt/fire

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Watch Duty▲205

   Get real-time alerts of wildfires and firefighting efforts

   2025 · watchduty.org · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Forest▲533

   Put down your phone and stay focused. Or a tree will die. 🌳😵

   2014 · forestapp.cc · its alternatives →

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   Wildfires by AreaHub▲14

   Track wildfires across the nation

   2022 · wildfires.areahub.com · its alternatives →

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    A Twitter bot I made that posts real-time deforestation data▲101

    Tracking deforestation one country at a time. Data from @globalforests. A bot by @facutxt.

    2020 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    Chestnut▲75

    Get your free wildfire risk analysis in under a minute

    2019 · getchestnut.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Timber.io▲318

    Log better. Solve problems faster.

    2017 · timber.io · its alternatives →

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    TreeMapper by Plant-for-the-Planet▲75

    Simplifying on-site data collection for forest restoration

    2021 · plant-for-the-planet.org · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Hawknet▲89

    An API to turn any camera into a wildfire detector

    2021 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Loggly▲74

    Unified log monitoring, log analysis and alerting system

    2015 · loggly.com · its alternatives →

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    Satellites on Fire▲4

    AI fire detection and monitoring from satellites

    May 2026 · satellitesonfire.com · its alternatives →

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    Log Harvestor▲189

    The only analytics tool you'll ever need

    2023 · logharvestor.com · its alternatives →

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    Log Owl▲136

    Open-source, privacy-focused error tracking and analytics

    2020 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    What3Trees — Watch your Tree Grow ▲7

    Verifiability Where it Counts

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Low cost CO₂ monitoring (your office) with Prometheus and Go▲127

    CO₂ & Temperature monitor. Contribute to larsp/co2monitor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Firewatch▲5

    Fire detection Twitter bot using satellite imagery

    2022 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

22. 22
    ezyLogs▲67

    Logging and server monitoring made easy

    2018 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    BearPing▲83

    Free Web Monitoring & Status Page

    2023 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Waterbomber Wildfire Tracker▲89

    App to spot all fire fighting related aircrafts

    2021 · waterbomber.app · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →