Climate risk, measured on your ground.
Flood and wildfire are decided metre by metre. We measure your site, show you what is exposed, then build the plan and the exercise on what we find. Everything stays in a portal your team uses year-round.
The Questions Have Changed
Councils, boards, insurers and regulators no longer settle for a line in a risk register. They want to see the exposure. A regional map stops at the region: hazard maps are coarse and often years old, and your exposure is one building, one road, one culvert. The event is not the only test: afterwards people ask what you knew, what you did about it and what you can show. Someone is on the hook: plant, hospital or town, the plan carries a name, and it should stand on measured ground.
From the First Flight to a Plan You Can Test
Five steps. The first three are shown on real sites from public data.
Capture
Drone lidar and photos over your community or site, flown when you need them. Where provincial or federal lidar exists, it gives us a free baseline on day one.
Process
We turn the capture into bare-earth terrain, contours and measured heights, lined up so the next flight compares cleanly.
Assess the Risk
Raise the water on your own terrain and count the buildings it reaches. Map a fire's perimeter and how hard it burned. Every water scenario is screening-level, not an official flood map.
Build Resiliency
The plan, the HIRA update, the flood or wildfire tabletop and the mitigation actions, all built on what the map shows.
Deliver to Your Risk Managers
One living portal: the readiness score, the maps, GIS downloads and the report. After an event we fly again, so the before and after is yours.
What You Get
Terrain and surface models: bare earth, surface and contours of your ground, yours as GIS files. Water-level scenarios: screening-level scenarios with the buildings each level reaches. Wildfire maps: interface mapping before a fire, perimeter and burn severity after one. The plan and the exercise: a plan or HIRA update written around the maps, and a tabletop that tests it. The portal: maps, GIS files, the report and your readiness score, year-round. The re-fly: a new flight after an event, compared against the last one.
Why Northline
Your own ground, measured where you operate, not read off a regional layer. Current: flown when you need it, and flown again after an event. One team from capture to plan to exercise, with no hand-offs to chase. Year-round: a living portal, not a report on a shelf. Both sides of the border: Canadian and US programs, side by side. Honest about the limits: screening is labelled screening, and what needs an engineer goes to an engineer.
Where Our Work Stops
Our water scenarios are screening-level. They show where to look, and they are not an official flood map. Lidar does not see the riverbed. A regulatory floodplain map needs a survey of the river bottom, flow records and a hydraulic model sealed by a professional engineer. We coordinate that work with an engineering partner and load the results into your portal.
Who This Is For
Industrial operators: plants, terminals and pipelines where a flood or fire stops more than the site. Healthcare systems: hospitals and care homes that cannot simply leave. Critical infrastructure and communities: utilities, transportation and towns along rivers, lakes and the forest edge. In Canada: flood hazard mapping programs, municipal hazard and risk assessments, FireSmart community plans. In the United States: FEMA hazard mitigation plans, the Community Rating System, Firewise USA.
See It Yourself
Live demonstrations on public data, no sign-up. Wildfire: Jasper, Alberta, 2024, with 31,645 hectares inside the official fire perimeter, about two thirds of it burned at high severity, measured from the satellite bands. Flood: the Muskoka River on provincial lidar. Wildfire: Fort McMurray from a satellite, the afternoon the town was evacuated. Hurricane: Fort Myers Beach before and after Hurricane Ian. After the fire: one drone flight over the Marshall Fire in Colorado becomes a street you can turn in 3D. Pre-plan: measure a tank farm at the Bécancour port in Quebec, not survey-grade. Lidar: 25 million laser points of the Muskoka River in 3D.
Start a Conversation
Tell us about your river, your treeline or your site. We will tell you what the public data already shows.