When the fire comes, your house is already fighting.
Wildfire Watchdog builds off-grid automated pump, sprinkler, and sensor systems for rural Oregon homes. Flame detected — pump starts — roof and ground go wet. No grid. No internet. No one home. It still works.
FIELD PROTOTYPE · LIMITED PILOT SLOTS · 2026 FIRE SEASON
In the critical minutes, a WUI home is on its own.
If you own a home in the wildland-urban interface around Sisters, Bend, or Terrebonne, you already know this. It's not alarmism. It's arithmetic.
Crews triage.
In a fast-moving fire, engines go where they can save the most. A defensible, self-protecting property is one they can pass with confidence — and one that's far more likely to be standing when they circle back.
Power and internet fail first.
Grid power and connectivity are usually the first casualties of an approaching fire. Any protection system that depends on them is a system that quits exactly when you need it.
You may not be home.
Fires don't check your calendar. Evacuations happen at 2 a.m. and on the one weekend you're out of town. Your defense has to work with nobody standing in the driveway holding a hose.
Detect. Trigger. Deploy. No human required.
A Wildfire Watchdog system is a chain of simple, rugged parts that do one thing each — and do it whether or not anyone's watching.
Sensors detect
Flame, heat, and environmental sensors stand watch around your structures 24/7 — live-fire tested in our shop before they ever ship to your property.
System triggers
The controller fires the pump automatically — gas engines with remote start, primed and ready. It also alerts your phone, but it never waits for your phone.
Roof and ground go wet
Rooftop rain guns and ground sprinklers soak your roofline, eaves, and defensible space — turning your home from fuel into the wettest thing on the ridge.
Hand-built hardware. Every wire, every valve, on purpose.
This is where Wildfire Watchdog earns its keep — not in a brochure, but on the bench. Everything below is real hardware from real installs, photographed the day it went in.
No grid. No internet. It still works.
The whole point of Wildfire Watchdog is that it keeps standing watch after everything else has gone dark. Every layer has a fallback, and the last fallback needs zero connectivity.
- POWERSolar + battery + inverter. The system charges itself and runs indefinitely with the grid down. Fire day is a bad day to depend on the utility.
- CONTROLApp, local dashboard, and physical buttons. Monitor and fire the system from your phone anywhere, from a local screen on-site, or by pressing an actual button with your actual hand.
- LINKLoRaWAN + WiFi to 2 miles. Sensors, pumps, and valves talk to each other across your property over long-range wireless — no trenching, no cables to burn.
- FAILSAFESensor triggers with zero connectivity. If every link in the chain is severed, the local sensors still start the pump. The dumbest layer of the system is also the most reliable one — by design.
Built. Tested. Running. This is real hardware.
This isn't a rendering or a roadmap. Every photo on this page is a working Wildfire Watchdog system — automated gas pumps with remote start, rooftop rain guns and ground sprinklers, solar power, and live cloud monitoring — built, live-fire tested, and running in Central Oregon.
Remote gas-powered fire pumps that start themselves — water pumped from any external source into your main tank, then onto your roof.
A field prototype, maturing into a product. A few properties get to go first.
We say "prototype" on purpose. Wildfire Watchdog is small-batch and hand-built, and we'd rather tell you that plainly than pretend to be a factory. The Founding Pilot invites a limited number of Central Oregon properties to be among the first protected sites — engineered personally, installed personally, and improved with every season.
Why limited? One builder. One crew. One fire season.
Every system is designed around a specific property's water source, structures, and terrain — and the founder is on every install. That math caps how many we can do before fire season. The scarcity isn't marketing. It's a calendar.
Custom-engineered system
Designed for your water source, your structures, your terrain. River, well, pond, or tank — the system is drawn for your property, not pulled off a shelf.
Founder on every install
The person who designed your system is the person on your roof — and you get a direct line to him, before, during, and after the install.
Founding member standing
Founding Pilot properties get priority for upgrades and support as Wildfire Watchdog grows. You're not a customer number — you're one of the properties this was built with.
Straight assessment
If your property isn't a fit — wrong water situation, wrong terrain, wrong timing — we say so plainly and we don't take the job. No pressure, ever. A watchdog that lies to you is worthless.
Apply for the Founding Pilot.
Tell us where your property is and how to reach you. We'll respond personally — usually the founder himself — with a straight read on whether Wildfire Watchdog is a fit for your place before this fire season.
PREFER TO TALK? SAME PERSON EITHER WAY.