Little Place Labs Named Finalist in 2025 Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize with Wildfire Platform Fire Foresight
- Bosco Lai
- Aug 7
- 2 min read
Houston, USA, August 6, 2025
Houston, Texas – Little Place Labs (LPL), a company pioneering real-time space-based insights and alerts, has been selected as a Finalist in the 2025 Verizon Disaster Resilience Prize, a national competition hosted by Verizon and MIT Solve. The challenge recognizes breakthrough technologies that help communities across the United States better prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters.
LPL’s solution, Fire Foresight, is a fully integrated platform designed to deliver timely wildfire detection, insights, and alerts. The system helps responders act early, with greater coordination and confidence, before wildfires and disasters escalate into large-scale emergencies.
A Multi-Layered Response for a Fast-Moving Threat
Fire Foresight combines satellite edge processing, artificial intelligence, and autonomous response assets into a single operating picture. The system captures the earliest indicators of wildfire activity across orbit, air, and ground, then transforms that data into actionable insights within minutes.
“This is what a more resilient future looks like. Rather than rely on a single sensor or source, we built a network that tips, cues, and verifies across layers,” said Bosco Lai, CEO and cofounder of Little Place Labs. “The result is faster detection, smarter coordination, and the ability to act before a spark becomes a disaster.”
Fire Foresight is one of a select group of finalists invited to present its solution to the Verizon and MIT Solve judging panel in August 2025. Final awardees will receive support from a one million dollar prize pool to accelerate deployment and expand impact across vulnerable communities.
About Little Place Labs
Little Place Labs is a space software company based in Houston, Texas. It delivers real-time insights and alerts from orbit using edge computing technology directly onboard satellites. Its flagship platform, Orbitfy, enables low-latency, low-bandwidth decision support for national security, disaster response, and critical infrastructure monitoring. LPL partners with satellite constellations to bring smarter, faster, and more secure insights to Earth.
About Fire Foresight
Fire Foresight is a coalition-built platform designed to detect, assess, and respond to wildfires using a fully integrated, multi-layer approach. By unifying satellite imagery, AI-driven ground sensing, drone operations, and sensor networks, Fire Foresight creates a real-time system that delivers early visibility and targeted alerts to decision makers. It is built for responders who need to act fast, and act smart.
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