Canada's wildfire hazard maps no longer take a year: an AI emulator reproduces BurnP3+ in hours
Canada's national wildfire hazard map has relied on BurnP3+ simulating millions of ignitions, taking over a year to produce. A Mila model trained with the Canadian Forest Service emulates BurnP3+ in seconds, running 806 to 3400 times faster depending on hardware, cutting a one-year task to 2 to 11 hours. It does not replace BurnP3+, but screens scenarios before precise runs.