Digital Twin and Agentic AI for Wild Fire Disaster Management: Intelligent Virtual Situation Room

TL;DR

This paper presents IVSR, a digital twin platform with autonomous AI agents that enhances wildfire disaster management by providing real-time, adaptive decision support through continuous data integration, simulation, and intervention calibration.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel bidirectional Digital Twin system with AI agents for real-time wildfire management, enabling adaptive response and improved coordination over traditional static methods.

Findings

Reduced detection-to-intervention latency

Enhanced resource coordination in simulations

Effective site-specific fire spread prediction

Abstract

According to the United Nations, wildfire frequency and intensity are projected to increase by approximately 14% by 2030 and 30% by 2050 due to global warming, posing critical threats to life, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Conventional disaster management frameworks rely on static simulations and passive data acquisition, hindering their ability to adapt to arbitrarily evolving wildfire episodes in real-time. To address these limitations, we introduce the Intelligent Virtual Situation Room (IVSR), a bidirectional Digital Twin (DT) platform augmented by autonomous AI agents. The IVSR continuously ingests multisource sensor imagery, weather data, and 3D forest models to create a live virtual replica of the fire environment. A similarity engine powered by AI aligns emerging conditions with a precomputed Disaster Simulation Library, retrieving and calibrating intervention tactics under the watchful eyes of experts. Authorized action-ranging from UAV redeployment to crew reallocation-is cycled back through standardized procedures to the physical layer, completing the loop between response and analysis. We validate IVSR through detailed case-study simulations provided by an industrial partner, demonstrating capabilities in localized incident detection, privacy-preserving playback, collider-based fire-spread projection, and site-specific ML retraining. Our results indicate marked reductions in detection-to-intervention latency and more effective resource coordination versus traditional systems. By uniting real-time bidirectional DTs with agentic AI, IVSR offers a scalable, semi-automated decision-support paradigm for proactive, adaptive wildfire disaster management.