HaloStart maps a community's exposure out to 15km using satellite and public data, structured into one FRIZ grid, then walks your team through what it means, live.
Read the Nine BlindSpots Framework →This isn't a knock on the people writing council reports and CWRPs. The guidance in them is sound, and many already include a hazard map close to home. What's usually missing is the picture further out, the 10 to 15km ring where an approaching fire actually starts, moves, and picks its direction, mapped in detail instead of left as background. HaloStart sits alongside your CWRP, your FireSmart plan, and whatever else is already underway, comfortably, with nothing to unwind or replace.
HaloStart builds that picture first. The full 10-15km exposure grid for your specific community, explained in a live session your team can act on, not filed away in a PDF nobody opens.
A ring of awareness around the thing it's guarding. HaloStart is the first ring. It's the picture that lets a community see its own exposure clearly, maybe for the first time. Everything else in the Halo family, HaloWatch, HaloScout, and what comes after, extends that same ring outward and keeps it current as conditions change. Start here, and the halo grows with you.
A FRIZ exposure grid built for your community's real geography — fuel type, terrain, fire weather history, all in one place.
A live working session that walks your team through what the grid actually means, deciding together what needs a closer look.
A written risk summary and next-steps document your team keeps — not a slide deck, a working reference.
HaloStart covers your entire community, not per resident, not per department, not a per-seat license. One subscription, one shared picture your whole team works from.
The framework behind the session: three layers, nine location-specific unknowns, and why communities breach where they do. Written by Brady Gilchrist, Founder & CEO.
