Western US States Leverage AI in Wildfire Detection

May 07, 2026 at 10:05 AM EDT

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On a warm afternoon in March, a surveillance camera positioned in Arizona’s Coconino National Forest picked up what appeared to be a thin column of smoke. The alert did not come from a lookout tower or a passing hiker but from an AI system trained to scan landscapes for early signs of fire.

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