Automated wildfire prevention and protection system for dwellings, buildings, structures and property

A method of protecting a structure from fire, the structure including a fire suppression system configured to protect the structure from the fire, the method comprising:

• monitoring at least one of:
• a water supply pressure of the fire suppression system, or a water supply flow of the fire suppression system;
• determining that a fire suppression system demand exceeds a threshold based on at least one of:
• the water supply pressure, or the water supply flow;
• and
• changing a flow of a fire retardant of the fire suppression system to at least a first surface of the structure upon the determining the fire suppression system demand exceeds the threshold.

A method of protecting a plurality of structures from fire, each of the plurality of structures including a fire suppression system configured to protect each of the plurality of structures from the fire, the method comprising:

• monitoring at least one of:
• a water supply pressure of one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems, or a water supply flow of the one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems;
• determining that a fire suppression system demand for the one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems exceeds a threshold based on at least one of:
• the water supply pressure of the one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems, or the water supply flow of the one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems;
• determining which of the one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems is directing a flow of fire retardant to at least one vertical surface of a structure respectively associated with the one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems;
• and
• changing the flow of fire retardant directed to the at least one vertical surface for each of the determined one or more of the plurality of fire suppression systems upon the determining the fire suppression system demand exceeds the threshold.

A method of protecting a plurality of structures from fire, each of the plurality of structures including a fire suppression system configured to protect each of the plurality of structures from the fire, the method comprising:

• determining a first set of one or more of the fire suppression systems that are proximate to a perimeter of an active fire region;
• determining a second set of one or more of the fire suppression systems that are more distant to the perimeter of the active fire region relative to the first set of the one of more fire suppression systems;
• and
• changing a flow of fire retardant directed to the second set of one or more of the fire suppression systems.

A method of estimating risk of exposure to fire for one or more regions of a geographic territory, the method comprising:

• determining a first fire risk rank for at least one region of the one or more regions based on one or more current atmospheric conditions corresponding to the at least one region;
• determining one or more fire characteristics of the at least one region based at least on one image of the at least one region, the at least one image captured after a temporally recent past fire in or near the at least one region;
• determining a number of fire suppression systems located in or near the at least one region;
• determining one or more ember hazard effects for the at least one region;
• adjusting the first fire risk rank to a second fire risk rank based on one or more of:
• the number of fire suppression systems, the one or more ember hazard effects, or the one or more fire characteristics;
• determining an evacuation condition based on the second fire risk rank;
• and
• communicating the evacuation condition to one or more recipients.