Top 11 Space startups for Wildfire Monitoring

Updated: Dec 04, 2025
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These startups enable satellite-based wildfire detection, fire spread prediction, smoke plume tracking, vegetation health monitoring, real-time fire data analysis, etc.
1
ICEYE
Country: Finland | Funding: $518.6M
ICEYE operates its own synthetic aperture radar Earth observation satellite constellation. It provides an API for commercial and government customers to automate SAR image acquisition. Its service is used by military agencies for operational and tactical surveillance of borders and military bases. The company also provides solutions for monitoring natural disaster: hurricanes, wildfires, and floods. The Gen4 satellite, developed by ICEYE, offers up to 16 cm of resolution and extended coverage with a repeat stage of up to 400 km, enabling more images to be acquired per orbit and longer cyclic stages, delivering the highest quality commercial search and rescue imagery in the world.
2
Muon Space
Country: USA | Funding: $181.2M
Muon Space focuses on dense, scientific-grade measurements of the atmosphere, ocean, and land.
3
AiDash
Country: USA | Funding: $91.5M
AiDash is a SaaS company enabling climate-resilient and sustainable infrastructure with satellites and AI.
4
OroraTech
Country: Germany | Funding: €60.4M
OroraTech is a software development company that provides thermal intelligence and wildfire solutions from space for a sustainable earth. ​
5
Wyvern
Country: USA | Funding: $18.6M
The highest resolution hyperspectral imagery of Earth from space.
6
Umgrauemeio
Country: Brazil | Funding: $5.3M
Umgrauemeio developed Pantera, a fire management platform to translate the foundations of fire fighting into tech solutions.
7
Little Place Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $475K
Building machine learning solutions for space edge computing in a scalable way.
8
Vasundharaa Geo Technologies
Country: India
Vasundharaa is a data mining startup that specialises in the acquisition and analysis of data sourced from satellites, aerial platforms, and field sensors.
9
WEO
Country: Luxembourg
WEO utilizes the power of space data and artificial intelligence to help construct a more sustainable future for humanity.
10
Terra Space Lab
Country: Israel
Terra Space Lab is developing Nano satellites based IR earth observation system. Global hypertemporal monitoring of forests, wildfires, and the environment.
Boris Maslennikov
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com