Tim DraperFounder and Managing Partne, Draper Associate · I back the ideas that look crazy first

Wildfires don’t wait, and neither does this technology🔥

22 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Tim Draper describes a wildfire-detection system using satellites, cameras, towers and AI to spot fires within minutes. In Mexico's State of Mexico, better fire-behavior data cut fire-brigade deaths to zero last year. Ninety-five percent of wildfires in Latin America are human-caused.

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We are combining several types of technology like satellites, cameras and towers, and AI so we can detect the fires in the first few minutes. In the northern parts of Argentina, wildfires are a huge problem, having wildfires every month of the year. And 95% of the wildfires in Latin America are generated by humans. In the State of Mexico last year, we have been able to reduce to zero the mortality rate of fire brigades because of giving them more information. on how the fire was behaving. I think it's difficult. We will depend also on climate change because if climate change keeps getting worse, wildfires will keep getting worse, and the technologies that we will have to develop will have to always evolve to be on that kind of world that we will be living in.