Free account · no hardware required
Own the
ridgeline.
Your own sensors, the public sensor network, and eight live fire and weather overlays — satellite hotspots, incident perimeters, Red Flag, radar, lightning, wind — on one shared command map. Built for a tablet in the field, and it keeps working when the signal doesn't.
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<60sSensor to screen
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1–5 miLoRa mesh per station
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48hBattery in the field
Sign in to your org
Or create a free account — public sensors and every overlay included.
iOS · Android · tablet · web. One login across all four.
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Sign in and see
Create your accountFree account, live map. Public sensor feeds, weather, red flag conditions and active-fire perimeters are there before you own any hardware.
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Add your ground truth
Buy a PIKiTPair PIKiT stations over Bluetooth — tripod, vehicle mount, or fixed. Wind, temperature, humidity and air quality stream in from where you actually are.
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Run the incident
Drop pins, draw lines and zones on the command map. Set thresholds, get warning / critical / emergency alerts, export the record afterward.
Read the field guide
The whole picture, full screen.
Same account on the browser, tablet and truck-cab display. Captured on the RidgeOps web portal.
Sensor network
The part nobody else has. Your Bonny Doon Labs PIKiT stations stream wind, temperature, humidity and AQI from the exact ridge you care about — each one a single glyph on the map, clustered at range and exact at zoom. Add the public network and you are reading terrain no forecast model resolves.
Manual field readings
No sensor on that slope? Drop a pin and log it by hand — belt weather kit, fuel stick, psychrometer, wind or visual. Same map, same record, and it queues offline until you have signal.
Command tools
Draw the incident: pins, lines and zones for firelines, dozer guards, safety zones and plumes — shared across your org in real time, with roles, invitations and cross-org sharing behind them.
The numbers you'd otherwise work out by hand.
Probability of Ignition, Fine Dead Fuel Moisture and Burning Index — computed on device.
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PIG
Probability of Ignition
How likely a firebrand is to take hold, 0–100. Log temperature and humidity and it resolves at that site; add a fuel-stick reading and it sharpens.
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FDFM
Fine Dead Fuel Moisture
The moisture in the fuels that carry initial spread. Read it off the stick, log it once, and it feeds everything downstream.
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BI
Burning Index
How hard a fire would be to contain where you are standing — Rothermel spread through Byram flame length, with LANDFIRE fuels and real terrain.
Measured and estimated never blur.
An index computed from instruments you actually read is labelled differently from one estimated off a public grid. You can always see which you are looking at, and what it was derived from.
Free with any account: the estimated overlays, and indices from your own field readings. Pro adds your whole org's readings, plus export and API.
Decision support, not a replacement for your own assessment. Accuracy depends on placement, calibration, and how well the mapped fuel model matches what is on the ground. How this is calculated →
Eight public feeds, one map.
Every overlay below comes with any account — no subscription, no hardware.
Fire perimeters
Rain radar
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Command map
Every object versioned and attributed, so you can see who moved a line and when.
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Threshold alerts
Wind shift, gust, humidity drop, temp rise. Audible, and smart enough that a gusty ridge doesn't set it off every minute.
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Manual field readings
Free on any account — log your own without a subscription or a sensor.
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Organizations
Roles, invitations, per-org device pools and thresholds.
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Offline queue
Readings hold locally and upload the moment you have signal.
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Public sensors
Opt a station in and it joins the shared network; opt out and it stays yours.
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Data export
CSV, JSON, GeoJSON and KMZ — plus ICS-214, ICS-213 and ICS-209 weather PDFs.
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REST API
Pull your reading history and stream live data into your own tools.
The software stands alone.
PIKiT gives it ground truth.
A self-contained wind, temperature, humidity and air-quality station that goes up on a tripod or a vehicle mount in minutes, and streams straight to the tablet in your hand. Stations also link to one another over a LoRa mesh, 1–5 miles a hop, so a unit beyond cell coverage still reports in through its neighbours.
- Anemometer
- Ultrasonic · 0–60 m/s
- LoRa mesh
- 1–5 mi per station · no cell needed
- Sensors
- Temp −40–120°C · RH · PM2.5/10
- Field-ready
- 10s sampling · 48h battery
Built and tested in the California wildlands.
$1,499 per station · tripod + solar +$99 · vehicle mount +$199
One paid plan. That's it.
Pro is what turns the map into a command system — your own stations streaming onto it, your org working from it, and a record you can hand over afterward.
Free trial included. Subscribe in the app or here on the web — one account across all four platforms, so buying on Android unlocks it on iOS, tablet and browser too.
Already have an account? Upgrade to Pro →- Connect & stream your PIKiT over Bluetooth
- 24/7 Wi-Fi cloud sync from fixed stations
- Command map — pins, lines and zones
- Threshold alerts with audio
- Organizations, roles & cross-org sharing
- Data export and REST API access
Buying for a department?
Per-seat store billing is not how agencies buy. Talk to us about an org licence — one invoice, purchase order, and seats managed centrally.
Subscriptions for individual users are billed through the App Store or Google Play. The PIKiT station is sold separately at bonnydoonlabs.com.
Straight answers
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Do I need to buy PIKiT hardware?
No. RidgeOps is useful on public sensors and overlays alone. Hardware adds readings from the exact spot you care about.
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Is this a life-safety system?
RidgeOps is decision support. Sensor accuracy depends on placement and calibration — keep NOAA, NWS and your local fire authority in the loop.
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What happens when we lose signal?
Sensors keep streaming to the device over Bluetooth, readings queue locally, and everything syncs when connectivity returns.
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Who owns the data?
Your organization. Every org's data is isolated at the database level, you can export any time, and you choose what is shared to the public network.
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Where does it run?
iOS, Android, tablet and browser — same account, same map, built for a truck cab and a command post alike. Available now on the App Store and Google Play.
Twenty homes burned within a mile of mine in the Bonny Doon mountains.
The 2020 CZU Lightning Complex came within ten feet of my house. Living up here, wildfire is a recurring danger — but that one was the wake-up call.
So I talked to local fire chiefs about their processes and their needs. What came through was the tediousness of gathering the data they needed and getting it into a usable format for planning. Bonny Doon Labs was born out of those conversations, and RidgeOps is the result.
We aim to help firefighters fight fires safer.
Talk to usOwn the
ridgeline.
Free account, live in a minute. Bring hardware when you are ready.