Built for the Territories
YukonNWTNorthwest TerritoriesNunavut
The North burns.
The North floods.
Be ready for both.
TAIGIS is a hazard intelligence platform being designed for Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut — a unified approach to wildfire and snowpack-driven flood risk for territorial and municipal governments.
Every summer the North burns. Every spring it floods. Readiness is the difference.
Each summer, fire moves fast across the boreal forest and taiga of the northern Territories. Dry conditions, compressed seasons, and fuel loads unique to the subarctic — and 2023 was the worst on record, scorching nearly a quarter of the NWT's landmass in a single season.
Then the snowpack breaks — and the rivers rise.
When either hazard hits, supply routes wash out, evacuations cascade, and the economic cost to the northern Territories runs into the hundreds of millions. Some communities depend on a single road or river crossing — and the window to act before those routes close can be measured in hours, not days.
What changes the outcome is intelligence purpose-built for the North: fire and flood monitored together, calibrated to boreal fuel loads, permafrost hydrology, and the terrain and rhythms that make this region unlike anywhere else.
That's where TAIGIS comes in.
hectares burned in NWT in 2023 — a record-breaking season
of NWT's population forced to evacuate that same year
faster the subarctic is warming vs. the global average
The North doesn't get one season to worry about. That's why TAIGIS focuses on both.
TAIGIS is being designed to deliver risk intelligence at a granularity fine enough to distinguish conditions between adjacent northern communities — not the regional averages most national tools provide today. Every community gets its own read.
TAIGIS is being designed around six danger levels — Very Low through Extreme — calibrated to northern ecoregions. A High rating in Yukon would reflect real Yukon fire conditions, not a threshold derived from southern Canadian baselines where fuel loads and seasons differ fundamentally.
The modelling approach is being designed around the Canadian North from the ground up — northern fuel types, compressed seasons, and permafrost conditions as foundational inputs rather than after-the-fact adjustments to southern models.
All six Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index components — FFMC, DMC, DC, ISI, BUI, and FWI — envisioned to be computed per cell, per day. Full decomposition available for jurisdictions with their own analysis pipelines.
No gaps. No regional averaging. Every community in Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut is envisioned to receive a community-specific risk score — from Whitehorse and Yellowknife to Old Crow and Resolute Bay.
High-resolution community intelligence
TAIGIS is being designed to deliver risk intelligence at a granularity fine enough to distinguish conditions between adjacent northern communities — not the regional averages most national tools provide today. Every community gets its own read.
When fire season and melt season overlap — as they increasingly do — TAIGIS is being designed so emergency managers can see fire risk and flood risk on the same surface, from the same source, on the same cadence. No switching between tools. No stitching together sources.
Built for Canada's three northern territories.
Yukon
Where mountain snowpacks drain into the Yukon River basin each spring and where dry interior conditions push fire danger fast. TAIGIS is being designed to deliver fire and flood risk intelligence from Whitehorse to Dawson City to Old Crow — every community, across both hazard seasons.
Northwest Territories
Canada's largest territory by documented fire history. The Mackenzie River system — the longest in Canada — floods downstream communities each spring as ice jams. The 2023 wildfire season burned 3.4 million hectares here alone. TAIGIS is being designed with NWT conditions at the centre of the model from day one.
Nunavut
Canada's newest and most remote territory. Arctic warming is reshaping drainage patterns, permafrost stability, and fire fuel conditions across the tundra. TAIGIS extends the same monitoring vision into Nunavut — giving decision-makers a picture of emerging risk in Canada's most isolated communities.
Two hazards.
One pipeline.
Fire
How TAIGIS is being designed to turn Northern Data into wildfire risk intelligence across the Territories.
Building on Northern Data
TAIGIS is being designed to draw on the open scientific and government data that already exists for the Canadian North — weather, satellite, hydrology, vegetation, and fuel observations — and turn that raw signal into hazard intelligence.
Compute Fire Weather Index
Wherever possible, TAIGIS is being designed to build on the methodologies Canada already trusts — including the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index — extending them with the northern-specific layers that make them meaningful for territorial decision-makers.
Score every cell
The modelling layer is being designed for boreal cordillera, boreal plains, and taiga conditions — northern fuel types, permafrost influence, and compressed fire seasons treated as primary signals rather than edge cases.
Built for the systems you use
Risk scores — VERY LOW through EXTREME — are envisioned to be available each morning for territorial dashboards, emergency management platforms, and community alert systems — every community, every grid cell, throughout fire season.
Flood
How TAIGIS is being designed to model snowpack state and produce flood risk intelligence by watershed and community.
Ingest snowpack & hydrology
TAIGIS is being designed to bring together the snowpack, soil, and river data that defines northern flood risk — and the historical ice-break and melt records that anchor what "normal" means in each watershed.
Model snowpack state
Each watershed is being designed to carry its own historical baseline, so anomalies are evaluated against that watershed's actual record — not a national or southern average. Melt rate, soil saturation, and drainage geometry all factor into the assessment.
Score by watershed
The flood model is being designed to combine snowpack anomaly, melt acceleration, soil saturation, watershed geometry, and ice-jam dynamics into a single community-level risk read — calibrated to the way northern rivers actually behave.
Built for the systems you use
The vision is for outputs that emergency managers can act on — days-to-peak-runoff estimates, ice-jam risk flags, and snowpack anomaly relative to the long-term historical baseline — delivered in whatever form fits a jurisdiction's existing systems.
The North, monitored.
TAIGIS is being designed to update fire risk and snowpack conditions across the Territories on a regular cadence. The view below is a concept preview — an illustration of what territorial emergency managers would see in a deployed system.
Six levels.
Calibrated to the North.
The six-level classification below is the proposed schema — designed around northern Canadian ecoregions rather than southern baselines. A Moderate rating in Yukon is intended to reflect real Yukon conditions, not a threshold borrowed from somewhere else.
FWI System Components
Designed to be calibrated to boreal cordillera, boreal plains, and taiga ecoregions — northern conditions treated as primary inputs, not edge-case adjustments.
Minimal fire weather conditions. High moisture in fine fuels.
Fire weather developing. Limited fire spread potential.
Active fire weather. Calibrated to northern baseline — reflects real Yukon conditions.
Significant fire weather. Elevated ignition and spread potential.
Dangerous fire weather. Rapid spread likely from any ignition.
Exceptional fire danger. Mass fire behaviour possible. Full resources required.
Five levels.
From melt to surge.
Flood risk scores incorporate snowpack SWE, melt acceleration, soil saturation, ice-jam probability, and watershed vulnerability. Scores are designed for regular updates through the melt season — typically March through June in most Yukon and NWT communities.
Concept Preview · Sample northern watershed
Snow Water Equivalent — % of historical normal
Risk Levels
Low SWE, cold temperatures, slow melt rate.
Above-normal SWE, warming trend beginning.
Rapid melt onset, saturated soils, elevated river levels.
High SWE + fast melt + ice-jam risk elevated.
Extreme SWE + rapid warm spell + confirmed ice-jam risk.
Days to Peak Runoff
Estimated per update
Ice-Jam Risk
Per watershed
SWE Anomaly
vs. 30-yr baseline
Soil Saturation
Multiple depths
Deployed and maintained
for you.
TAIGIS is being designed to ship as a fully managed platform — data, modelling, hosting, and support all handled by the TAIGIS team. Each deployment would be shaped with you to fit the priorities, workflows, and unique characteristics of your jurisdiction and communities. The capabilities below describe the platform we are building toward.
Your own instance of the TAIGIS platform, hosted and managed by the TAIGIS team. Your data never shares infrastructure with other jurisdictions, and uptime and data freshness commitments are defined in the licensing agreement.
Deploy the fire module, the flood module, or both — whichever fits your jurisdiction's needs and timeline. When run together, modules are envisioned to share a single data pipeline and unified dashboard.
A purpose-built dashboard showing fire and flood risk across your territory, designed to update regularly each season. Configurable views for different user roles — from technical staff pulling data to leadership needing a morning briefing.
Configurable alert thresholds per community. When risk crosses your defined level, notifications are envisioned to go out by email, SMS, or other channels — connecting directly into your existing emergency management workflows without manual monitoring.
Designed for integration into your existing systems. Connect TAIGIS fire and flood risk outputs into your GIS, EOC platforms, or public-facing emergency information systems — on your terms, in your infrastructure.
Direct onboarding with the TAIGIS team — staff training, threshold configuration, integration support. Ongoing relationship throughout each hazard season. Licensing designed around government budget cycles, with territorial, municipal, and community tiers envisioned.
Dedicated hosted instance
Your own instance of the TAIGIS platform, hosted and managed by the TAIGIS team. Your data never shares infrastructure with other jurisdictions, and uptime and data freshness commitments are defined in the licensing agreement.
Ready to deploy
Request a BriefingDesigned to fit the systems
you already run.
Whatever shape TAIGIS ultimately takes — dashboard, integration layer, scoring service, or some combination — it's being designed from day one to fit alongside the infrastructure that territorial governments and emergency managers already use. Not require them to adopt a new operational silo.
Design principles
Fit the workflow, not the other way around
TAIGIS outputs are being designed to meet emergency managers and territorial staff where they already work — not require new processes or parallel systems.
Jurisdiction-specific, not one-size-fits-all
Every deployment is envisioned to be shaped around the existing infrastructure, staffing, and operating realities of the jurisdiction — what works for a territorial EOC may look different from what works for a small northern municipality.
Open to the form that fits
Whether that ends up being a dashboard, a data feed, structured exports, or something else — the goal is hazard intelligence in the hands of decision-makers, not fidelity to any particular technical shape.
Integration approach is shaped around each jurisdiction's existing infrastructure.
Integration contexts
GIS & mapping
Layer risk outputs into your existing territorial GIS environment
EOC platforms
Fast, clear outputs for the tempo of emergency operations
Alert systems
Community thresholds into existing notification workflows
Reporting tools
Historical trend data for pre-season planning and review
Public platforms
Risk information shareable with the communities who need it
Research pipelines
Structured data access for academic and scientific use
Built for the people who manage risk in the North.
Territorial, municipal, and federal governments face both hazard seasons every year — with shrinking windows between them. TAIGIS is being designed to give decision-makers at every level a single unified view: where risk is elevated, where it is trending, and how it compares to historical norms. Pre-season planning, resource pre-positioning, and briefings for ministers and mayors all designed to flow from the same platform.
- Cross-hazard resource allocation
- Pre-season scenario planning
- Territorial and municipal briefing exports
- Escalation threshold alerts
EOCs need information fast, in a usable form, without requiring manual aggregation from disconnected sources. Both hazard modules are designed to share the same dashboard and alerting interface — reducing cognitive overhead during active events. TAIGIS is being designed for the operational tempo of emergency response: clear spatial data, configurable thresholds, and outputs that work with existing incident management structures.
- Shared dashboard interface
- Configurable alert thresholds
- Spatial risk export for ICS
- Dual-hazard situational display
First Nations and Indigenous governments in the North hold deep knowledge of their territories — seasonal patterns, traditional burning practices, and flood-prone areas that precede formal monitoring by generations. TAIGIS is being designed to provide community-level risk access and a platform that can integrate that knowledge alongside regular risk outputs. Communities can monitor conditions for their own territory, cultural sites, and access routes without depending on external intermediaries.
- Community-level spatial resolution
- Territory-specific alert feeds
- Traditional knowledge integration
- Accessible under future territorial licensing
Northern transmission corridors, highway routes, and resource operations face compounding risk from both fire and flood. A wildfire cutting off a mining operation, or a spring flood washing out the only road into a remote community, can halt critical systems for weeks. TAIGIS is being designed to provide route-level and asset-level risk views so operators can make pre-event decisions — rerouting, stockpiling, or standing down — before conditions deteriorate.
- Route-level risk views
- Asset proximity weighting
- Pre-event planning support
- Supply chain disruption modelling
TAIGIS is being designed to function as both a hazard intelligence platform and a structured data resource for research. Institutions studying northern hydrological change, permafrost dynamics, fire behaviour, or climate-driven risk shifts would be able to access snowpack anomaly records, melt-rate time series, ice-jam probability data, and historical fire records — pulling this directly into their own analysis pipelines.
- Structured historical data access
- SWE and melt-rate records
- Ice-jam probability by watershed
- Fire occurrence and intensity records
Territorial, municipal, and federal governments face both hazard seasons every year — with shrinking windows between them. TAIGIS is being designed to give decision-makers at every level a single unified view: where risk is elevated, where it is trending, and how it compares to historical norms. Pre-season planning, resource pre-positioning, and briefings for ministers and mayors all designed to flow from the same platform.
Designed to support
- Cross-hazard resource allocation
- Pre-season scenario planning
- Territorial and municipal briefing exports
- Escalation threshold alerts
Built for the North.
Built with the North.
TAIGIS is being built. Not behind closed doors, and not as a finished system handed down from elsewhere — but in partnership with the people, governments, and communities the platform is meant to serve.
We are not here to hand over a system and step back. We are designing TAIGIS to work alongside Territorial governments, municipalities, and Indigenous community leaders — to listen carefully, adapt to what matters most on the ground, and make sure this platform truly serves the people and places it is built for.
Canada's northern Territories are home to some of the world's most extraordinary landscapes and most resilient communities. We have a deep respect for both, and a genuine commitment to improving the safety and lives of the Canadians who call the North home — and to helping preserve the land they steward.
Sovereign by design
Built in Canada, for Canada.
Every TAIGIS deployment is being designed to run on Canadian infrastructure, under Canadian jurisdiction — keeping Northern data sovereign and at home.
Status
In development
Coverage (target)
YT · NWT · NU
Deployment models (proposed)
Territory · Municipality · Community
Approach
Partnership-first
Ready to bring hazard intelligence to the North?
If you work in hazard management, emergency response, or government across Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Nunavut — we want to hear from you.